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 John Fletcher
Francis Beaumont
1584–6 March 1616 (~32)
90% affinity
Shared: ben jonson, plays
bio 90%
John Ford
17 April 1586–c. 1639 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: plays, drama
bio 75% · poems 85%
Phineas Fletcher
8 April 1582–13 December 1650 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 83%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
79% affinity
Shared: play
bio 76% · poems 83%
Thomas Heywood
c. 1574–August 1641 (~67)
78% affinity
Shared: plays
bio 76% · poems 80%
William Shakespeare
c. 23 April 1564–23 April 1616 (~52)
78% affinity
Shared: plays
bio 75% · poems 80%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
75% affinity
Shared: ben jonson, play
bio 72% · poems 80%
Giles Fletcher
c. 1586–1623 (~37)
75% affinity
bio 75%
James Shirley
September 1596–29 October 1666 (~70)
75% affinity
Shared: plays, drama
bio 75%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
75% affinity
Shared: ben jonson
bio 68% · poems 84%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 79%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
75% affinity
Shared: drama
bio 66% · poems 86%