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 Barbour
Robert Henryson
c. 1425–c. 1500 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 78%
William Dunbar
c. 1460–c. 1520 (~60)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76%
Michael Bruce
27 March 1746–5 July 1767 (~21)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76%
Allan Ramsay
c. 15 October 1684–7 January 1758 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 75%
James Ballantine
11 June 1806–18 December 1877 (~71)
74% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 74%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
74% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 74%
Mark Alexander Boyd
1563–1601 (~38)
73% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 73%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
72% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 72%
King James I of Scotland
July 1394–21 February 1437 (~43)
72% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 72%