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 Matthew Prior
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
80% affinity
Shared: life, social
bio 77% · poems 82%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: prior
bio 73% · poems 84%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
78% affinity
Shared: philosophical, life
bio 74% · poems 82%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 78% · poems 78%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
78% affinity
bio 76% · poems 80%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 82%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
78% affinity
Shared: philosophical, life
bio 74% · poems 82%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: love
bio 73% · poems 82%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
77% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 74% · poems 81%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 75% · poems 80%
Mark Akenside
9 November 1721–23 June 1770 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: philosophical, eighteenth
bio 73% · poems 81%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
77% affinity
bio 74% · poems 81%