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 Thomas Paine
Philip Freneau
2 January 1752–18 December 1832 (~80)
73% affinity
Shared: revolutionary
bio 73%
Thomas Babington Macaulay
25 October 1800–28 December 1859 (~59)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Henry David Thoreau
12 July 1817–6 May 1862 (~45)
70% affinity
Shared: government
bio 70%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Alphonse de Lamartine
21 October 1790–1 March 1869 (~79)
67% affinity
Shared: french
bio 67%
Thomas Godfrey
4 December 1736–3 August 1763 (~27)
67% affinity
Shared: benjamin franklin
bio 67%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
67% affinity
bio 67%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Thomas Parnell
11 September 1679–24 October 1718 (~39)
66% affinity
bio 66%
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
65% affinity
bio 65%
Henry Newbolt
6 June 1862–19 April 1938 (~76)
65% affinity
bio 65%