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 Henry Carey
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 75% · poems 82%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: london, songs
bio 71% · poems 88%
Thomas d'Urfey
c. 1653–26 February 1723 (~70)
78% affinity
Shared: political satire
bio 73% · poems 83%
Ben Jonson
c. 11 June 1572–6 August 1637 (~65)
76% affinity
Shared: london
bio 71% · poems 81%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
75% affinity
Shared: music, songs
bio 71% · poems 80%
Leigh Hunt
19 October 1784–28 August 1859 (~75)
75% affinity
Shared: london
bio 68% · poems 84%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
75% affinity
Shared: london
bio 70% · poems 81%
Edward Lear
12 May 1812–29 January 1888 (~76)
75% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 69% · poems 83%
John Gay
30 June 1685–4 December 1732 (~47)
75% affinity
Shared: opera, london
bio 75%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
75% affinity
Shared: love
bio 68% · poems 83%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 82%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: music, world
bio 70% · poems 80%