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 John Wilmot
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
81% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 78% · poems 85%
Lord Byron
22 January 1788–19 April 1824 (~36)
80% affinity
Shared: sexual
bio 75% · poems 85%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 74% · poems 85%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 83%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: restoration, culture
bio 74% · poems 82%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: life, desire
bio 70% · poems 87%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
78% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 73% · poems 84%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
78% affinity
bio 72% · poems 85%
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: court
bio 72% · poems 85%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: restoration, court
bio 73% · poems 84%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
78% affinity
Shared: culture, court
bio 71% · poems 85%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 72% · poems 85%