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 Charles Wesley
Isaac Watts
17 July 1674–25 November 1748 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: hymns, divine, christ
bio 77%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
72% affinity
Shared: religious, anglican, church
bio 72%
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
72% affinity
Shared: divine, religious
bio 72%
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
72% affinity
Shared: faith, religious
bio 72%
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
71% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 71%
William Whiting
1 November 1825–3 May 1878 (~53)
71% affinity
Shared: divine, religious, hymn
bio 71%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
71% affinity
Shared: divine, religious, church
bio 71%
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
70% affinity
Shared: religious, anglican, church
bio 70%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
69% affinity
Shared: faith
bio 69%
Cecil Frances Alexander
14 April 1818–12 October 1895 (~77)
68% affinity
Shared: hymns, faith, religious
bio 68%
Thomas Edwards Hankinson
19 June 1805–6 October 1843 (~38)
68% affinity
Shared: divine, religious, church
bio 68%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
68% affinity
bio 68%