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 Edward Shanks
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
81% affinity
bio 75% · poems 88%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: first world war, poems
bio 74% · poems 89%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
80% affinity
bio 76% · poems 86%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: trinity college, first world war
bio 75% · poems 86%
John Drinkwater
1 June 1882–25 March 1937 (~55)
79% affinity
Shared: poems
bio 73% · poems 87%
Richard Aldington
8 July 1892–27 July 1962 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 84%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
79% affinity
Shared: first world war, poems
bio 75% · poems 84%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 86%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: poems
bio 73% · poems 85%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
78% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 73% · poems 85%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: britain
bio 72% · poems 85%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: trinity college
bio 70% · poems 87%