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 Edward Herbert
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
85% affinity
Shared: john donne, religious
bio 85%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
75% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75%
Richard Edwardes
c. 1525–31 October 1566 (~41)
75% affinity
Shared: court
bio 75%
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
74% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 74%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
73% affinity
Shared: courtier, court
bio 73%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
10 January 1814–20 January 1902 (~88)
73% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Stephen Hawes
c. 1474–c. 1523 (~49)
72% affinity
Shared: court
bio 72%
Francis Quarles
8 May 1592–8 September 1644 (~52)
72% affinity
Shared: religious, court
bio 72%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
Thomas Traherne
c. 1637–27 September 1674 (~37)
72% affinity
bio 72%