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 Thomas Hoccleve
Geoffrey Chaucer
c. 1343–25 October 1400 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: london, hundred years' war
bio 79%
Stephen Hawes
c. 1474–c. 1523 (~49)
78% affinity
Shared: medieval
bio 78%
John Lydgate
c. 1370–c. 1450 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: geoffrey chaucer, hundred years' war
bio 78%
Robert Henryson
c. 1425–c. 1500 (~75)
77% affinity
Shared: medieval
bio 77%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
bio 75%
George Chapman
c. 1559–12 May 1634 (~75)
75% affinity
Shared: london, around
bio 75%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
75% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
74% affinity
Shared: london, medieval
bio 74%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
74% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74%