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 Mark Akenside
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
81% affinity
Shared: imagination, love
bio 76% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: imagination
bio 74% · poems 86%
James Beattie
25 October 1735–18 August 1803 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 76% · poems 83%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 73% · poems 84%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
78% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 71% · poems 88%
John Sheffield
8 September 1647–24 February 1721 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: virgil
bio 72% · poems 86%
Leigh Hunt
19 October 1784–28 August 1859 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 71% · poems 87%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 72% · poems 85%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: love, beauty, memory
bio 71% · poems 86%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
78% affinity
bio 73% · poems 83%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 71% · poems 86%