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 Robert Henryson
William Dunbar
c. 1460–c. 1520 (~60)
82% affinity
Shared: scottish, courtly
bio 82%
Allan Ramsay
c. 15 October 1684–7 January 1758 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 79%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish, courtly
bio 78%
John Barbour
c. 1316–13 March 1395 (~79)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 78%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 78%
Thomas Hoccleve
c. 1368–8 May 1426 (~58)
77% affinity
Shared: medieval
bio 77%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
77% affinity
bio 77%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
Henry Constable
1562–October 1613 (~51)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Mark Alexander Boyd
1563–1601 (~38)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76%