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 Charles Williams
William Carlos Williams
17 September 1883–4 March 1963 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: speech
bio 79% · poems 85%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: oxford, london
bio 72% · poems 87%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 86%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: oxford, world, speech
bio 72% · poems 85%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 84%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 85%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: london, world, eyes
bio 71% · poems 85%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 83%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 87%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 87%