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 John Dryden
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
84% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 80% · poems 88%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
83% affinity
Shared: love
bio 79% · poems 87%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
82% affinity
Shared: london, love
bio 74% · poems 91%
Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)
82% affinity
bio 75% · poems 90%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
81% affinity
bio 73% · poems 90%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 75% · poems 88%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
81% affinity
bio 72% · poems 91%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
81% affinity
Shared: love
bio 74% · poems 89%
George Peele
c. 25 July 1556–9 November 1596 (~40)
80% affinity
Shared: london, love
bio 75% · poems 86%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
80% affinity
Shared: poet laureate, restoration
bio 77% · poems 84%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
80% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 76% · poems 85%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
80% affinity
Shared: roman catholicism
bio 73% · poems 88%