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 William Drummond
John Scott
9 January 1730–12 December 1783 (~53)
81% affinity
bio 81%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77% · poems 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 86%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76% · poems 85%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76% · poems 85%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 80%
James Thomson
c. 11 September 1700–27 August 1748 (~48)
80% affinity
bio 77% · poems 83%
John Drinkwater
1 June 1882–25 March 1937 (~55)
80% affinity
Shared: history
bio 75% · poems 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 84%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
79% affinity
Shared: history
bio 74% · poems 86%
William Alexander
c. 1567–12 February 1640 (~73)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 79%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 79%