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 Sheffield
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
82% affinity
Shared: love
bio 77% · poems 87%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
81% affinity
bio 75% · poems 88%
Sir Philip Sidney
30 November 1554–17 October 1586 (~32)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 88%
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
79% affinity
Shared: court, love
bio 75% · poems 85%
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
78% affinity
Shared: court
bio 74% · poems 84%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
78% affinity
bio 72% · poems 85%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
78% affinity
bio 72% · poems 85%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
78% affinity
bio 75% · poems 81%