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 Montgomerie
James Graham
1612–21 May 1650 (~38)
85% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 86% · poems 83%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
83% affinity
Shared: scottish, court
bio 83%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish, court
bio 76% · poems 85%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
79% affinity
Shared: love
bio 73% · poems 88%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 73% · poems 87%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 75% · poems 84%
William Dunbar
c. 1460–c. 1520 (~60)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish, court
bio 79%
William Alexander
c. 1567–12 February 1640 (~73)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 78%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish, james vi, court
bio 78%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, love
bio 71% · poems 87%
Robert Henryson
c. 1425–c. 1500 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 78%
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
21 June 1813–4 August 1865 (~52)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 73% · poems 83%