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 Webbe
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
83% affinity
Shared: culture, court
bio 79% · poems 89%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: love
bio 75% · poems 91%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: music
bio 76% · poems 89%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
82% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 77% · poems 87%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
81% affinity
Shared: lover, love
bio 76% · poems 88%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
81% affinity
Shared: beloved, beauty
bio 76% · poems 88%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
81% affinity
Shared: love, romantic
bio 75% · poems 88%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
81% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 74% · poems 88%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
81% affinity
Shared: love, romantic
bio 73% · poems 89%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76% · poems 86%
William Walsh
6 October 1662–15 March 1708 (~46)
80% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 73% · poems 88%
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: love, beloved
bio 75% · poems 86%