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 Sir John Davies
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 88%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 73% · poems 87%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 85%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
78% affinity
bio 75% · poems 81%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 81%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 84%
Henry Constable
1562–October 1613 (~51)
77% affinity
Shared: beauty, world
bio 71% · poems 83%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: beauty, world
bio 69% · poems 86%
Edmund Spenser
c. 1552–13 January 1599 (~47)
77% affinity
Shared: colonial ireland
bio 71% · poems 84%
Mark Akenside
9 November 1721–23 June 1770 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 81%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 80%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 84%