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 Webster
Thomas Otway
3 March 1652–14 April 1685 (~33)
76% affinity
Shared: london, plays, play
bio 76%
Thomas Heywood
c. 1574–August 1641 (~67)
75% affinity
Shared: london, plays
bio 75%
John Ford
17 April 1586–c. 1639 (~53)
75% affinity
Shared: thomas dekker, plays
bio 75%
Sir William Davenant
c. February 1606–7 April 1668 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: drama
bio 74%
Francis Beaumont
1584–6 March 1616 (~32)
74% affinity
Shared: london, plays, play
bio 74%
John Fletcher
20 December 1579–29 August 1625 (~46)
73% affinity
Shared: london, plays, play
bio 73%
William Congreve
24 January 1670–19 January 1729 (~59)
71% affinity
Shared: plays, play
bio 71%
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
30 June 1803–26 January 1849 (~46)
71% affinity
Shared: play, drama
bio 71%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
71% affinity
Shared: play, drama
bio 71%
Thomas Dekker
c. 1572–25 August 1641 (~69)
70% affinity
Shared: london, plays
bio 70%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
70% affinity
Shared: london, play
bio 70%
William Shakespeare
c. 23 April 1564–23 April 1616 (~52)
69% affinity
Shared: london, plays, play
bio 69%