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.

Sir John Suckling

10 February 1609–1642 (~33)

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Poets whose work rhymes most with Sir John Suckling

Charles Sackville

24 January 1643–29 January 1706 (~63)

1 poem analysed

Shared: court, social

2 April 1884–20 December 1958 (~74)

1 poem analysed

Sir Charles Sedley

March 1639–20 August 1701 (~62)

1 poem analysed

Shared: court, social

c. 1460–21 June 1529 (~69)

1 poem analysed

Shared: court, social

Alexander Brome

1620–30 June 1666 (~46)

2 poems analysed

Shared: social, king

1595–22 March 1640 (~45)

4 poems analysed

Shared: ben jonson, court

Richard Lovelace

1617–1657 (~40)

10 poems analysed

Shared: first bishops' war, social

31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)

8 poems analysed

c. 1554–November 1606 (~52)

1 poem analysed

Edward Rowland Sill

29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)

2 poems analysed

Edward Hovell-Thurlow

10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)

2 poems analysed

9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)

2 poems analysed