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 Strode
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 79%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
78% affinity
Shared: royalist, oxford, church
bio 78%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: royalist, civil war
bio 78%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 78%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 78%
Sir Charles Sedley
March 1639–20 August 1701 (~62)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: christ church oxford, church
bio 78%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
78% affinity
bio 78%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: oxford, church
bio 77%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: lyric poet
bio 77%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
77% affinity
bio 77%