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 William Alexander
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 79%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 79%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 78%
King James I of Scotland
July 1394–21 February 1437 (~43)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 78%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
77% affinity
Shared: history
bio 77%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76%
Sir Walter Raleigh
c. 1554–29 October 1618 (~64)
76% affinity
Shared: history, power
bio 76%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Lascelles Abercrombie
9 January 1881–27 October 1938 (~57)
74% affinity
bio 74%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
74% affinity
Shared: scottish, power
bio 74%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
74% affinity
bio 74%