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 William Shenstone
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: shropshire
bio 78%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
77% affinity
bio 77%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: rural, memory
bio 77%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: social, memory
bio 77%
Richard Jago
1 October 1715–8 May 1781 (~66)
77% affinity
Shared: rural, landscape
bio 77%
John Scott
9 January 1730–12 December 1783 (~53)
76% affinity
Shared: rural, landscape
bio 76%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
76% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 76%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
75% affinity
bio 75%
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: rural, social
bio 75%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
75% affinity
bio 75%