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 Traherne
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
81% affinity
Shared: divine, world, spiritual
bio 78% · poems 85%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: history
bio 79% · poems 82%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: divine, childhood
bio 79% · poems 81%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 84%
Francis Thompson
18 December 1859–13 November 1907 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 79%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: divine, world, spiritual
bio 74% · poems 86%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 74% · poems 86%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 84%
James Thomson
c. 11 September 1700–27 August 1748 (~48)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 83%
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
78% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 78%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: childhood, world
bio 73% · poems 84%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 82%