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 Barnes
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 76%
Bernard Barton
31 January 1784–19 February 1849 (~65)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Robert Bridges
23 October 1844–21 April 1930 (~86)
75% affinity
Shared: speech
bio 75%
William Shenstone
18 November 1714–11 February 1763 (~49)
75% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 75%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
74% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 74%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
74% affinity
Shared: grace, once
bio 74%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
73% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 73%
Richard Barnefield
29 June 1574–1627 (~53)
73% affinity
bio 73%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
73% affinity
Shared: rural, speech
bio 73%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
73% affinity
bio 73%