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.

Jasper Mayne

23 November 1604–6 December 1672 (~68)

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mayne love beauty lovers fleeting

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Poets whose work rhymes most with Jasper Mayne

c. 1612–c. 1685 (~73)

1 poem analysed

Shared: royalist, restoration

Sir John Beaumont

c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)

1 poem analysed

Shared: religious

c. 13 October 1560–10 August 1633 (~73)

2 poems analysed

c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)

1 poem analysed

Shared: christ church oxford, royalist, oxford

Thomas Randolph

15 June 1605–March 1635 (~30)

1 poem analysed

Shared: ben jonson, comedy

31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)

8 poems analysed

Shared: restoration, religious

William Cartwright

1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)

3 poems analysed

Shared: westminster school, royalist, ben jonson

Sir William Davenant

c. February 1606–7 April 1668 (~62)

1 poem analysed

Shared: royalist, oxford, restoration

Alexander Brome

1620–30 June 1666 (~46)

2 poems analysed

Shared: royalist, restoration

Richard Edwardes

c. 1525–31 October 1566 (~41)

2 poems analysed

11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)

1 poem analysed

Shared: religious

c. 1554–November 1606 (~52)

1 poem analysed