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 Allan Ramsay
Robert Henryson
c. 1425–c. 1500 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 79%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
78% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 78%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
77% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 77%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
76% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 76%
James Ballantine
11 June 1806–18 December 1877 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 76%
John Scott
9 January 1730–12 December 1783 (~53)
75% affinity
bio 75%
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
21 June 1813–4 August 1865 (~52)
75% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 75%
John Barbour
c. 1316–13 March 1395 (~79)
75% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 75%
William Dunbar
c. 1460–c. 1520 (~60)
74% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 74%
James Beattie
25 October 1735–18 August 1803 (~68)
73% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 73%