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 Sir Thomas Wyatt
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
81% affinity
Shared: court, desire
bio 74% · poems 88%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
80% affinity
bio 77% · poems 84%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
80% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 73% · poems 88%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: court
bio 74% · poems 86%
Sir Henry Wotton
30 March 1568–December 1639 (~71)
79% affinity
Shared: ambassador
bio 78% · poems 81%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
79% affinity
Shared: court
bio 73% · poems 85%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 74% · poems 85%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
78% affinity
Shared: henry viii, court
bio 78%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: love, self
bio 74% · poems 84%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
78% affinity
Shared: love, truth
bio 73% · poems 84%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 70% · poems 89%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 72% · poems 86%