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 John Ford
Ford Madox Hueffer
17 December 1873–26 June 1939 (~66)
83% affinity
Shared: social, love
bio 79% · poems 88%
Thomas Ford
c. 1580–November 1648 (~68)
80% affinity
Shared: love
bio 74% · poems 86%
John Fletcher
20 December 1579–29 August 1625 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: play, plays, drama
bio 75% · poems 85%
Thomas Heywood
c. 1574–August 1641 (~67)
78% affinity
Shared: social, play
bio 75% · poems 82%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
77% affinity
Shared: play, drama
bio 69% · poems 86%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 85%
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
76% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 69% · poems 85%
William Shakespeare
c. 23 April 1564–23 April 1616 (~52)
76% affinity
Shared: social, play, plays
bio 71% · poems 82%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
76% affinity
bio 67% · poems 88%
John Drinkwater
1 June 1882–25 March 1937 (~55)
76% affinity
Shared: plays, drama
bio 69% · poems 83%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
75% affinity
Shared: social, play, desire
bio 69% · poems 84%
Thomas Otway
3 March 1652–14 April 1685 (~33)
75% affinity
Shared: play, plays, drama
bio 75%