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.

John Skinner

3 October 1721–16 June 1807 (~86)

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skinner french convention religious revolutionary reason grace heaven hell social self tradition

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Poets whose work rhymes most with John Skinner

25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)

33 poems analysed

Shared: scottish

bio 77% · poems 79%

William Drummond

13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)

2 poems analysed

Shared: scottish

bio 76% · poems 78%

Alexander Scott

c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)

1 poem analysed

Shared: scottish, religious

11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)

2 poems analysed

Shared: scottish, religious

bio 69% · poems 81%

Robert Fergusson

5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)

2 poems analysed

Shared: scottish

bio 74% · poems 75%

9 January 1730–12 December 1783 (~53)

1 poem analysed

James Ballantine

11 June 1806–18 December 1877 (~71)

1 poem analysed

Shared: scottish

Thomas Chatterton

20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)

5 poems analysed

Shared: religious

bio 65% · poems 84%

Sir Walter Scott

15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)

2 poems analysed

Shared: scottish

bio 71% · poems 77%

Alexander Montgomerie

c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)

2 poems analysed

Shared: scottish, religious

bio 72% · poems 75%

Algernon Charles Swinburne

5 April 1837–10 April 1909 (~72)

14 poems analysed

bio 69% · poems 78%

c. December 1798–29 February 1848 (~50)

1 poem analysed

Shared: scottish, social