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 Abraham Cowley
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
82% affinity
Shared: love, life
bio 76% · poems 89%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
82% affinity
Shared: westminster school, royalist
bio 78% · poems 86%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
81% affinity
Shared: court
bio 78% · poems 85%
William Cowper
26 November 1731–25 April 1800 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 81% · poems 81%
Charles Cotton
28 April 1630–16 February 1687 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: cavalier, love
bio 76% · poems 87%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: love, life
bio 75% · poems 87%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
81% affinity
Shared: court
bio 76% · poems 86%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: love, life
bio 73% · poems 89%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
80% affinity
Shared: london, love
bio 74% · poems 88%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: court, love
bio 76% · poems 85%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
80% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 76% · poems 85%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
80% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 75% · poems 85%