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 Robert Southwell
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 78% · poems 87%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
80% affinity
Shared: religious, priest, death
bio 75% · poems 87%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: catholic, priest, life
bio 73% · poems 86%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, life, grace
bio 72% · poems 86%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
78% affinity
Shared: catholic, religious, life
bio 71% · poems 86%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
78% affinity
Shared: life, death
bio 71% · poems 85%
Algernon Charles Swinburne
5 April 1837–10 April 1909 (~72)
78% affinity
Shared: death, love
bio 70% · poems 86%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: love
bio 71% · poems 85%
Richard Tottel
c. 1528–2 July 1593 (~65)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, life, death
bio 70% · poems 86%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: life, death
bio 68% · poems 87%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: life, soul
bio 71% · poems 84%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, life
bio 71% · poems 84%