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 Isaac Watts
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: self
bio 72% · poems 85%
Charles Wesley
18 December 1707–29 March 1788 (~81)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, hymn, hymns
bio 77%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, divine, spiritual
bio 71% · poems 84%
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, pastoral
bio 77%
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
76% affinity
Shared: religious, spiritual, love
bio 72% · poems 82%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: self
bio 73% · poems 79%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: religious, divine
bio 71% · poems 81%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: religious, divine
bio 68% · poems 84%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
75% affinity
Shared: christ, divine, spiritual
bio 67% · poems 85%
Thomas Edwards Hankinson
19 June 1805–6 October 1843 (~38)
75% affinity
Shared: religious, divine
bio 70% · poems 80%
Thomas Traherne
c. 1637–27 September 1674 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: divine, spiritual
bio 68% · poems 82%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
74% affinity
Shared: religious, worship
bio 74%