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 Alfred Lord Tennyson
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
87% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 82% · poems 93%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
87% affinity
Shared: lincolnshire, poems by two brothers
bio 83% · poems 90%
Frederick Tennyson
5 June 1807–26 February 1898 (~91)
85% affinity
Shared: somersby, lincolnshire, poems by two brothers
bio 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
85% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 78% · poems 93%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
85% affinity
bio 78% · poems 94%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
85% affinity
Shared: social
bio 79% · poems 92%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
85% affinity
Shared: life
bio 79% · poems 92%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
85% affinity
Shared: trinity college
bio 80% · poems 91%
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
84% affinity
Shared: social
bio 79% · poems 91%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
84% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 77% · poems 92%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 92%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
83% affinity
bio 80% · poems 88%