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 Clifford Bax
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: traditions
bio 76% · poems 87%
Bernard Barton
31 January 1784–19 February 1849 (~65)
81% affinity
Shared: social, beauty
bio 75% · poems 87%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
80% affinity
Shared: william butler yeats
bio 74% · poems 88%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
80% affinity
Shared: beauty, memory
bio 75% · poems 87%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: love
bio 73% · poems 88%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 87%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: social, love
bio 72% · poems 89%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 85%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
80% affinity
Shared: romantic, love
bio 72% · poems 89%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: love
bio 73% · poems 88%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 86%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
79% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 74% · poems 85%