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 Gerald Gould
Ralph Hodgson
9 September 1871–3 November 1962 (~91)
81% affinity
Shared: world
bio 79% · poems 82%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 74% · poems 88%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
80% affinity
Shared: social, love
bio 76% · poems 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 74% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 88%
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
2 June 1878–26 May 1962 (~84)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 84%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 85%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: world, love
bio 72% · poems 86%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: world, love
bio 72% · poems 85%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 84%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: world, love
bio 74% · poems 83%
Manmohan Ghose
19 January 1869–4 January 1924 (~55)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 83%