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 Alexander Scott
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
85% affinity
Shared: edinburgh
bio 85%
John Scott
9 January 1730–12 December 1783 (~53)
85% affinity
bio 85%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
84% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 84%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
83% affinity
bio 83%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
81% affinity
bio 81%
William Dunbar
c. 1460–c. 1520 (~60)
81% affinity
Shared: scottish makar
bio 81%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
80% affinity
bio 80%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 80%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
80% affinity
Shared: edinburgh
bio 80%
William Alexander
c. 1567–12 February 1640 (~73)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 79%
Robert Henryson
c. 1425–c. 1500 (~75)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Allan Ramsay
c. 15 October 1684–7 January 1758 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: edinburgh
bio 78%