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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Sir John Beaumont

Francis Beaumont
1584–6 March 1616 (~32)
1 poem analysed
83% affinity
Shared: leicestershire, court of common pleas, inner temple
bio 83%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
1 poem analysed
79% affinity
Shared: history
bio 79%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 78%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 78%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
1 poem analysed
78% affinity
Shared: grace
bio 78%
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
1 poem analysed
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 78%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 78%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
1 poem analysed
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
3 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: religious, grace
bio 77%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
1 poem analysed
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
1 poem analysed
77% affinity
Shared: history
bio 77%
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
1 poem analysed
77% affinity
Shared: inner temple
bio 77%
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