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 Phineas Fletcher
Giles Fletcher
c. 1586–1623 (~37)
89% affinity
Shared: allegory
bio 89%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
80% affinity
Shared: devotional, religious, parish
bio 75% · poems 86%
John Fletcher
20 December 1579–29 August 1625 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 83%
Edmund Spenser
c. 1552–13 January 1599 (~47)
79% affinity
Shared: the faerie queene, pastoral
bio 76% · poems 82%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: devotional, religious
bio 73% · poems 85%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
78% affinity
bio 77% · poems 80%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, life, social
bio 69% · poems 86%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
76% affinity
Shared: pastoral, religious
bio 70% · poems 84%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
76% affinity
Shared: religious, life
bio 71% · poems 83%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: divine, spiritual, life
bio 69% · poems 85%
James Thomson
c. 11 September 1700–27 August 1748 (~48)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 83%
James Beattie
25 October 1735–18 August 1803 (~68)
76% affinity
Shared: spiritual
bio 69% · poems 84%