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 Rupert Brooke
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
84% affinity
Shared: first world war, world
bio 81% · poems 88%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
84% affinity
Shared: first world war, poems
bio 79% · poems 90%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
84% affinity
Shared: social, desire
bio 77% · poems 92%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
83% affinity
Shared: poems, world, beauty
bio 78% · poems 89%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
83% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 78% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
83% affinity
Shared: social, desire
bio 76% · poems 91%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: world, beloved, beauty
bio 75% · poems 92%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
82% affinity
bio 76% · poems 89%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
82% affinity
Shared: desire, world
bio 75% · poems 90%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 74% · poems 91%
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
82% affinity
Shared: first world war, desire, soldier
bio 79% · poems 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: world, beauty
bio 74% · poems 91%