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 Giles Fletcher
Phineas Fletcher
8 April 1582–13 December 1650 (~68)
89% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 89%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Edmund Spenser
c. 1552–13 January 1599 (~47)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
76% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 76%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
76% affinity
Shared: trinity college cambridge, religious, devotional
bio 76%
John Fletcher
20 December 1579–29 August 1625 (~46)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
75% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75%
Philip James Bailey
22 April 1816–6 September 1902 (~86)
75% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75%
Thomas Godfrey
4 December 1736–3 August 1763 (~27)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: religious, devotional
bio 75%
Thomas Traherne
c. 1637–27 September 1674 (~37)
74% affinity
bio 74%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
74% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 74%