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 Bede the Venerable
Caedmon
c. 600–c. 681 (~81)
73% affinity
Shared: northumbria, anglo-saxon
bio 73%
Robert Mannyng of Brunne
1288–c. 1338 (~50)
71% affinity
Shared: history
bio 71%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
66% affinity
Shared: church
bio 66%
Michael Drayton
1563–December 1631 (~68)
65% affinity
Shared: history
bio 65%
John Lydgate
c. 1370–c. 1450 (~80)
65% affinity
Shared: monk
bio 65%
Thomas Hoccleve
c. 1368–8 May 1426 (~58)
65% affinity
bio 65%
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
65% affinity
Shared: church, ecclesiastical
bio 65%
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
30 June 1803–26 January 1849 (~46)
64% affinity
bio 64%
Richard Rowlands
c. 1550–c. 1640 (~90)
64% affinity
Shared: history
bio 64%
Henry Augustin Beers
2 July 1847–7 September 1926 (~79)
64% affinity
Shared: history
bio 64%
Barnabe Googe
11 June 1540–February 1594 (~54)
64% affinity
bio 64%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
63% affinity
Shared: history
bio 63%