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 Jonathan Swift
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 76%
Samuel Johnson
18 September 1709–13 December 1784 (~75)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66% · poems 80%
Algernon Charles Swinburne
5 April 1837–10 April 1909 (~72)
72% affinity
Shared: death
bio 65% · poems 79%
John Wilmot
1 April 1647–26 July 1680 (~33)
71% affinity
bio 64% · poems 80%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
71% affinity
bio 65% · poems 79%
William Makepeace Thackeray
18 July 1811–24 December 1863 (~52)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66% · poems 78%
Sir John Suckling
10 February 1609–1642 (~33)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66% · poems 77%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
71% affinity
Shared: satirical
bio 68% · poems 74%
Tobias George Smollett
c. 19 March 1721–17 September 1771 (~50)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63% · poems 80%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
70% affinity
Shared: social
bio 64% · poems 78%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
70% affinity
Shared: power, social
bio 64% · poems 77%