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 Tobias George Smollett
Oliver Goldsmith
c. 10 November 1728–4 April 1774 (~46)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73%
Charles Dickens
7 February 1812–9 June 1870 (~58)
72% affinity
Shared: social, london
bio 72%
Charles Whitehead
4 October 1804–5 July 1862 (~58)
72% affinity
Shared: social, london
bio 72%
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
72% affinity
Shared: novel, social
bio 72%
John Gibson Lockhart
12 June 1794–25 November 1854 (~60)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
71% affinity
Shared: novel, social
bio 71%
Jonathan Swift
30 November 1667–19 October 1745 (~78)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71%
William Makepeace Thackeray
18 July 1811–24 December 1863 (~52)
71% affinity
Shared: novel, social
bio 71%
George Gascoigne
c. 1539–7 October 1577 (~38)
70% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70%
Thomas Shadwell
c. 1642–19 November 1692 (~50)
70% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
70% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70%
Mark Twain
30 November 1835–21 April 1910 (~75)
69% affinity
Shared: novel, social
bio 69%