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 Wordsworth
Dorothy Wordsworth
25 December 1771–25 January 1855 (~84)
88% affinity
Shared: cockermouth, samuel taylor coleridge, lyrical ballads
bio 83% · poems 94%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
87% affinity
Shared: world
bio 80% · poems 94%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
85% affinity
Shared: rural, memory, world
bio 80% · poems 92%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
85% affinity
Shared: samuel taylor coleridge, memory
bio 79% · poems 92%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
85% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 78% · poems 93%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
84% affinity
Shared: world, nature, life
bio 78% · poems 92%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
84% affinity
Shared: lake district, samuel taylor coleridge
bio 78% · poems 93%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
84% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 76% · poems 95%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
84% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 76% · poems 94%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: lake district, samuel taylor coleridge
bio 77% · poems 89%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
82% affinity
Shared: rural, memory, world
bio 75% · poems 91%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 78% · poems 86%