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 Sir Richard Fanshawe
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
81% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 78% · poems 84%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
79% affinity
Shared: cavalier, royalist
bio 75% · poems 85%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
79% affinity
Shared: cavalier, royalist
bio 75% · poems 84%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: charles ii
bio 73% · poems 85%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: rose
bio 74% · poems 84%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
78% affinity
bio 76% · poems 82%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
78% affinity
bio 75% · poems 82%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 71% · poems 87%
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: inner temple, beauty
bio 73% · poems 84%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
77% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 75% · poems 80%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 82%