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 John Freeman
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 78% · poems 87%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: georgian poetry
bio 76% · poems 87%
Robert Bridges
23 October 1844–21 April 1930 (~86)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 77% · poems 84%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: world, landscape
bio 74% · poems 87%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: childhood, world
bio 74% · poems 86%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 83%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 85%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 88%
F. S. Flint
19 December 1885–28 February 1960 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: world, heart
bio 74% · poems 85%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: world, heart
bio 73% · poems 86%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: world, light
bio 74% · poems 85%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 83%