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 George John Cayley
Charles Cotton
28 April 1630–16 February 1687 (~57)
74% affinity
Shared: practical
bio 74%
Charles Stuart Calverley
22 December 1831–17 February 1884 (~53)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
72% affinity
bio 72%
William Oldys
14 July 1696–15 April 1761 (~65)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
72% affinity
bio 72%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
72% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 72%
Charles Kingsley
12 June 1819–23 January 1875 (~56)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
72% affinity
bio 72%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
71% affinity
Shared: trinity college cambridge
bio 71%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Sir Aubrey de Vere
28 August 1788–5 July 1846 (~58)
71% affinity
bio 71%