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 Mark Alexander Boyd
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
76% affinity
Shared: james vi
bio 76%
Robert Henryson
c. 1425–c. 1500 (~75)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
75% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 75%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
75% affinity
bio 75%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
74% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 74%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
74% affinity
bio 74%
William Oldys
14 July 1696–15 April 1761 (~65)
74% affinity
bio 74%
William Alexander
c. 1567–12 February 1640 (~73)
74% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 74%