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 Dunbar
Robert Henryson
c. 1425–c. 1500 (~75)
82% affinity
Shared: courtly
bio 82%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
81% affinity
Shared: scottish makar, court, courtly
bio 81%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: court, courtly
bio 79%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: court
bio 78%
James Ballantine
11 June 1806–18 December 1877 (~71)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 78%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
77% affinity
Shared: university of st andrews, court
bio 77%
John Barbour
c. 1316–13 March 1395 (~79)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
21 June 1813–4 August 1865 (~52)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
75% affinity
bio 75%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
75% affinity
bio 75%