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 James Graham
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
85% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 86% · poems 83%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
77% affinity
Shared: wars of the three kingdoms, scottish
bio 73% · poems 83%
King James I of Scotland
July 1394–21 February 1437 (~43)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 70% · poems 83%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
75% affinity
Shared: military, royalist
bio 70% · poems 80%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
75% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 72% · poems 78%
Sir Walter Raleigh
c. 1554–29 October 1618 (~64)
74% affinity
Shared: power, trust
bio 68% · poems 81%
Robert Cunninghame-Graham
1735–11 December 1797 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 74%
Robert Williams Buchanan
18 August 1841–10 June 1901 (~60)
74% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 81%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
74% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 74%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
74% affinity
Shared: honour
bio 67% · poems 81%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
74% affinity
Shared: faith, self
bio 66% · poems 83%