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 George Wither
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
83% affinity
bio 83%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
79% affinity
Shared: civil wars
bio 79%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
78% affinity
bio 78%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 78%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
78% affinity
bio 78%
John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807–7 September 1892 (~85)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
77% affinity
bio 77%
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
77% affinity
Shared: pastoral
bio 77%
Isaac Watts
17 July 1674–25 November 1748 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, pastoral
bio 77%
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%