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 John Stuart Blackie
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 74% · poems 85%
James Ballantine
11 June 1806–18 December 1877 (~71)
79% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 79%
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
21 June 1813–4 August 1865 (~52)
79% affinity
Shared: german romanticism, edinburgh
bio 76% · poems 81%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 84%
Allan Cunningham
7 December 1784–30 October 1842 (~58)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish, world
bio 68% · poems 87%
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 80%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 85%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 84%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 70% · poems 84%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish, life
bio 72% · poems 81%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 69% · poems 85%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 66% · poems 88%