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 Richard Tottel
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
82% affinity
Shared: court
bio 76% · poems 90%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
81% affinity
Shared: life, death
bio 73% · poems 90%
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: court
bio 73% · poems 88%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: beloved, love
bio 73% · poems 86%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, life, love
bio 72% · poems 86%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, life
bio 72% · poems 86%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, life
bio 71% · poems 86%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, life
bio 67% · poems 90%
Richard Edwardes
c. 1525–31 October 1566 (~41)
77% affinity
Shared: court, life
bio 75% · poems 80%
Anthony Munday
c. 13 October 1560–10 August 1633 (~73)
77% affinity
Shared: love
bio 73% · poems 83%
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, life, death
bio 70% · poems 86%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 81%