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 Flatman
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
80% affinity
Shared: death
bio 74% · poems 88%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
79% affinity
Shared: civil wars
bio 75% · poems 85%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: death
bio 72% · poems 87%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
79% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 74% · poems 85%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
79% affinity
Shared: london, death
bio 72% · poems 88%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
79% affinity
Shared: death, beauty
bio 73% · poems 87%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75% · poems 84%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: death
bio 73% · poems 86%
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 88%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 87%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
78% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 75% · poems 83%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
78% affinity
Shared: charles ii
bio 73% · poems 85%