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 Ernest Henley
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
85% affinity
bio 79% · poems 92%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
82% affinity
bio 77% · poems 89%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
82% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 75% · poems 91%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 89%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
82% affinity
bio 73% · poems 93%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74% · poems 91%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
82% affinity
Shared: illness, london
bio 75% · poems 90%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 90%
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
81% affinity
Shared: life, suffering
bio 75% · poems 89%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
81% affinity
bio 73% · poems 91%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
81% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72% · poems 92%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
81% affinity
bio 72% · poems 92%