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 William Walsh
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
78% affinity
Shared: restoration, social
bio 78%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
77% affinity
Shared: augustan age
bio 77%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 75%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
75% affinity
Shared: oxford, social
bio 75%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
74% affinity
Shared: oxford, social
bio 74%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
74% affinity
Shared: history
bio 74%
Sir Richard Fanshawe
12 June 1608–June 1666 (~58)
74% affinity
bio 74%
William Sidney Walker
4 December 1795–15 October 1846 (~51)
73% affinity
bio 73%
William Broome
30 April 1689–16 November 1745 (~56)
73% affinity
Shared: alexander pope
bio 73%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
73% affinity
Shared: restoration, court
bio 73%