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 Henry Constable
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
78% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 72% · poems 86%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 73% · poems 84%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: sir philip sidney
bio 73% · poems 84%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
78% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 71% · poems 86%
Edmund Spenser
c. 1552–13 January 1599 (~47)
78% affinity
Shared: sir philip sidney, sonnet
bio 71% · poems 86%
Richard Edwardes
c. 1525–31 October 1566 (~41)
78% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 75% · poems 81%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
78% affinity
Shared: catholic, love, beloved
bio 71% · poems 85%
Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 84%
Thomas Campion
12 February 1567–1 March 1620 (~53)
77% affinity
Shared: love, beauty, beloved
bio 74% · poems 81%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
77% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 70% · poems 86%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 70% · poems 86%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
77% affinity
Shared: robert devereux
bio 73% · poems 81%