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 John Scott
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
87% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 87%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
85% affinity
Shared: social
bio 85%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
85% affinity
bio 85%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
81% affinity
bio 81%
John Gibson Lockhart
12 June 1794–25 November 1854 (~60)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 78%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 77%
James Beattie
25 October 1735–18 August 1803 (~68)
77% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 77%
William Shenstone
18 November 1714–11 February 1763 (~49)
76% affinity
Shared: landscape, rural
bio 76%
James Thomson
c. 11 September 1700–27 August 1748 (~48)
76% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 76%
Richard Jago
1 October 1715–8 May 1781 (~66)
76% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 76%
David Gray
29 January 1838–3 December 1861 (~23)
76% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 76%
Thomas Gray
26 December 1716–30 July 1771 (~55)
75% affinity
Shared: rural, social
bio 75%