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 William Cartwright
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
82% affinity
Shared: westminster school, royalist
bio 78% · poems 86%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
81% affinity
Shared: ben jonson
bio 75% · poems 88%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: beloved
bio 74% · poems 89%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
81% affinity
bio 76% · poems 87%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
80% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 74% · poems 88%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 87%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
80% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 74% · poems 88%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
80% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 74% · poems 87%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 84%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: love
bio 72% · poems 88%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: court
bio 71% · poems 88%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 73% · poems 86%