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 Philip James Bailey
Francis Thompson
18 December 1859–13 November 1907 (~48)
76% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 76%
Giles Fletcher
c. 1586–1623 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75%
Phineas Fletcher
8 April 1582–13 December 1650 (~68)
75% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
74% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 74%
Gerald Massey
29 May 1828–29 October 1907 (~79)
74% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 74%
Clifford Bax
13 July 1886–18 November 1962 (~76)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Robert Williams Buchanan
18 August 1841–10 June 1901 (~60)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
30 June 1803–26 January 1849 (~46)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Arthur Davison Ficke
10 November 1883–30 November 1945 (~62)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Lionel Johnson
15 March 1867–4 October 1902 (~35)
73% affinity
Shared: religious, history
bio 73%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
73% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73%
William Philpot
16 April 1823–16 April 1889 (~66)
73% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73%