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 Thomas Shadwell
James Shirley
September 1596–29 October 1666 (~70)
81% affinity
Shared: restoration comedy, restoration
bio 81%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 84%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: poet laureate, restoration
bio 77% · poems 84%
William Shakespeare
c. 23 April 1564–23 April 1616 (~52)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 84%
Sir William Davenant
c. February 1606–7 April 1668 (~62)
77% affinity
Shared: poet laureate, restoration
bio 77%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: john dryden, restoration
bio 71% · poems 84%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
76% affinity
Shared: ben jonson
bio 72% · poems 82%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 81%
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792–8 July 1822 (~30)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66% · poems 89%
George Peele
c. 25 July 1556–9 November 1596 (~40)
76% affinity
Shared: play
bio 72% · poems 81%
Sir Charles Sedley
March 1639–20 August 1701 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: restoration, social
bio 76%
Thomas Heywood
c. 1574–August 1641 (~67)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 80%