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 James Thomson
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 76% · poems 89%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: rural, landscape
bio 76% · poems 87%
James Thomson
23 November 1834–3 June 1882 (~48)
81% affinity
bio 81%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
80% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 74% · poems 87%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 88%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: scientific
bio 72% · poems 89%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
80% affinity
bio 72% · poems 89%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
80% affinity
bio 77% · poems 83%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: summer, landscape
bio 77% · poems 83%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 87%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
79% affinity
bio 71% · poems 88%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 85%