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 Stanley
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
82% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 76% · poems 89%
Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)
82% affinity
Shared: love
bio 76% · poems 89%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
82% affinity
Shared: love
bio 77% · poems 87%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: philosophical, love
bio 74% · poems 90%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
81% affinity
Shared: middle temple
bio 74% · poems 90%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: ancient
bio 73% · poems 90%
Sir Richard Fanshawe
12 June 1608–June 1666 (~58)
81% affinity
Shared: history, royalist
bio 78% · poems 84%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
80% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 74% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: philosophical, love
bio 76% · poems 85%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
80% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 76% · poems 85%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: love
bio 74% · poems 86%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
80% affinity
Shared: history
bio 73% · poems 88%