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 Rowlands
Joshua Sylvester
1563–28 September 1618 (~55)
73% affinity
Shared: religious, protestant
bio 73%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
73% affinity
bio 73%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
72% affinity
Shared: christ church oxford, religious
bio 72%
Hilaire Belloc
27 July 1870–16 July 1953 (~83)
71% affinity
Shared: catholic
bio 71%
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
10 January 1814–20 January 1902 (~88)
71% affinity
Shared: catholic, religious
bio 71%
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
70% affinity
Shared: catholic, religious
bio 70%
Ernst Stadler
11 August 1883–30 October 1914 (~31)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Henry Scott Holland
27 January 1847–17 March 1918 (~71)
70% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 70%
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
70% affinity
Shared: london, religious
bio 70%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
70% affinity
Shared: history
bio 70%
John Reynolds
c. 1588–c. 1655 (~67)
70% affinity
Shared: protestant
bio 70%
Barnabe Googe
11 June 1540–February 1594 (~54)
70% affinity
Shared: religious, protestant
bio 70%