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 Richard Jago
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: absence
bio 71% · poems 84%
Ralph Hodgson
9 September 1871–3 November 1962 (~91)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 83%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
77% affinity
Shared: landscape, rural
bio 71% · poems 85%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 86%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: fruit
bio 72% · poems 82%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: history
bio 70% · poems 85%
William Shenstone
18 November 1714–11 February 1763 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: landscape, rural
bio 77%
John Clare
13 July 1793–20 May 1864 (~71)
77% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 71% · poems 83%
Mark Akenside
9 November 1721–23 June 1770 (~49)
76% affinity
Shared: eighteenth
bio 71% · poems 83%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
76% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 72% · poems 81%
William Cowper
26 November 1731–25 April 1800 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: lady
bio 71% · poems 82%