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 Joseph Addison
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
77% affinity
Shared: power
bio 75% · poems 79%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 80%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 82%
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 81%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
75% affinity
bio 73% · poems 78%
Mark Akenside
9 November 1721–23 June 1770 (~49)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 80%
Leigh Hunt
19 October 1784–28 August 1859 (~75)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 81%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
75% affinity
Shared: john dryden
bio 72% · poems 79%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
75% affinity
Shared: john dryden
bio 71% · poems 80%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
75% affinity
Shared: john dryden
bio 68% · poems 83%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 77%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 78%