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 Oldham
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
84% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 80% · poems 88%
John Wilmot
1 April 1647–26 July 1680 (~33)
81% affinity
Shared: restoration
bio 78% · poems 85%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 89%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
80% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 74% · poems 87%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
80% affinity
Shared: restoration, beloved
bio 74% · poems 87%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
80% affinity
Shared: john dryden
bio 75% · poems 85%
Leigh Hunt
19 October 1784–28 August 1859 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 89%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
79% affinity
Shared: life, stars
bio 73% · poems 88%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
79% affinity
Shared: soul
bio 74% · poems 86%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 85%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: restoration, life
bio 71% · poems 89%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
79% affinity
Shared: beloved
bio 71% · poems 89%