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 Robert Fergusson
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
85% affinity
Shared: social
bio 82% · poems 88%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77% · poems 85%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
80% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 80%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 75% · poems 84%
Sir Samuel Ferguson
10 March 1810–9 August 1886 (~76)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 73% · poems 86%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
78% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, social, scottish
bio 75% · poems 82%
Allan Cunningham
7 December 1784–30 October 1842 (~58)
78% affinity
Shared: robert burns, social
bio 72% · poems 85%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
78% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish, life
bio 73% · poems 83%
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
21 June 1813–4 August 1865 (~52)
78% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 74% · poems 82%
James Thomson
c. 11 September 1700–27 August 1748 (~48)
78% affinity
Shared: eighteenth, life
bio 72% · poems 85%
William Soutar
28 April 1898–15 October 1943 (~45)
77% affinity
Shared: social, scottish
bio 71% · poems 85%