Poet Affinities
Every poet has a thematic centre of gravity averaged from their critiqued poems. Here we use that to find the poets whose work rhymes with a given writer — often in surprising ways.
Poets whose work rhymes most with W. H. Davies
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
85% affinity
bio 79% · poems 92%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
84% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 76% · poems 95%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 92%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
83% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 80% · poems 85%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
82% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 75% · poems 92%
John Freeman
29 January 1880–23 September 1929 (~49)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 78% · poems 87%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 75% · poems 91%
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
2 June 1878–26 May 1962 (~84)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 88%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
82% affinity
Shared: life, world, beauty
bio 76% · poems 90%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 92%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
82% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 74% · poems 91%
Sir John Davies
16 April 1569–8 December 1626 (~57)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 88%