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 William Blake
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792–8 July 1822 (~30)
78% affinity
Shared: romanticism, imaginative
bio 71% · poems 86%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, helped, world
bio 70% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
76% affinity
Shared: world
bio 67% · poems 87%
John Milton
9 December 1608–8 November 1674 (~66)
76% affinity
Shared: london, religious
bio 72% · poems 82%
Edwin J. Ellis
20 May 1848–1916 (~68)
76% affinity
Shared: london, imaginative
bio 76%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
75% affinity
Shared: london, world, life
bio 69% · poems 83%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
75% affinity
Shared: london, romanticism, imaginative
bio 67% · poems 83%
John Clare
13 July 1793–20 May 1864 (~71)
74% affinity
Shared: world, life, social
bio 66% · poems 85%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
74% affinity
Shared: london, energy, world
bio 66% · poems 84%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
74% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 64% · poems 86%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
74% affinity
Shared: world, social
bio 66% · poems 83%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
74% affinity
Shared: romanticism, world, life
bio 64% · poems 85%