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 Thomas Randolph
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 79%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
78% affinity
Shared: ben jonson
bio 78%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
77% affinity
Shared: lyric poet, culture
bio 77%
Matthew Prior
c. July 1664–18 September 1721 (~57)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
76% affinity
Shared: play
bio 76%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
76% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 76%
Richard Edwardes
c. 1525–31 October 1566 (~41)
76% affinity
bio 76%
John Wilmot
1 April 1647–26 July 1680 (~33)
76% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 76%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: trinity college
bio 75%
Richard Barnefield
29 June 1574–1627 (~53)
75% affinity
Shared: pastoral
bio 75%
Sir Charles Sedley
March 1639–20 August 1701 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: play
bio 75%