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 Sir Charles Sedley
Charles Sackville
24 January 1643–29 January 1706 (~63)
83% affinity
Shared: restoration, social
bio 83%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 78%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: restoration, social
bio 77%
John Wilmot
1 April 1647–26 July 1680 (~33)
76% affinity
Shared: merry gang, restoration
bio 76%
Sir John Suckling
10 February 1609–1642 (~33)
76% affinity
Shared: social, court
bio 76%
Richard Edwardes
c. 1525–31 October 1566 (~41)
76% affinity
Shared: court
bio 76%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
76% affinity
Shared: restoration, social
bio 76%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 76%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
76% affinity
bio 76%
James Shirley
September 1596–29 October 1666 (~70)
76% affinity
Shared: restoration, social
bio 76%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: social, court
bio 76%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75%