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 Stevenson
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
74% affinity
Shared: comedy
bio 74%
William Congreve
24 January 1670–19 January 1729 (~59)
73% affinity
Shared: play, comedy
bio 73%
Thomas Heywood
c. 1574–August 1641 (~67)
73% affinity
Shared: play
bio 73%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
72% affinity
Shared: play, comedy
bio 72%
Francis Beaumont
1584–6 March 1616 (~32)
72% affinity
Shared: play
bio 72%
Sir William Davenant
c. February 1606–7 April 1668 (~62)
72% affinity
Shared: drama
bio 72%
Thomas Dekker
c. 1572–25 August 1641 (~69)
71% affinity
Shared: play
bio 71%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
71% affinity
Shared: play, comedy
bio 71%
Sir George Etherege
c. 1635–c. 10 May 1692 (~57)
71% affinity
Shared: play, comedy
bio 71%
John Gay
30 June 1685–4 December 1732 (~47)
70% affinity
Shared: play
bio 70%
John Fletcher
20 December 1579–29 August 1625 (~46)
70% affinity
Shared: play, drama
bio 70%
Thomas Otway
3 March 1652–14 April 1685 (~33)
70% affinity
Shared: play, drama
bio 70%