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 Charles Cotton
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
81% affinity
Shared: cavalier, life
bio 76% · poems 87%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: restoration, life, love
bio 73% · poems 87%
William Cowper
26 November 1731–25 April 1800 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 81%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: hope, life
bio 71% · poems 88%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 85%
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
79% affinity
Shared: social, love
bio 73% · poems 85%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
79% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 71% · poems 88%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 88%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
78% affinity
Shared: practical
bio 75% · poems 83%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
78% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 76% · poems 81%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
78% affinity
Shared: truth, beloved
bio 69% · poems 88%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 84%