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 Jessie Pope
Helen Hamilton
12 March 1882–7 November 1954 (~72)
81% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 80% · poems 81%
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
77% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 75% · poems 81%
Siegfried Sassoon
8 September 1886–1 September 1967 (~81)
75% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 71% · poems 80%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
75% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 75% · poems 74%
Owen Seaman
18 September 1861–2 February 1936 (~75)
73% affinity
Shared: first world war, punch
bio 68% · poems 79%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
73% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 72% · poems 75%
Julia Ward Howe
27 May 1819–17 October 1910 (~91)
73% affinity
Shared: women
bio 73%
Cicely Fox Smith
1 February 1882–8 April 1954 (~72)
73% affinity
bio 69% · poems 78%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
73% affinity
Shared: popular
bio 73% · poems 72%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 74%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
72% affinity
Shared: women
bio 71% · poems 74%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
72% affinity
Shared: first world war, patriotic
bio 72% · poems 72%