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 Ernest Dowson
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
85% affinity
Shared: french
bio 79% · poems 92%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
84% affinity
Shared: rhymers' club
bio 78% · poems 92%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
83% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, suffering
bio 77% · poems 90%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
83% affinity
Shared: suffering, london
bio 75% · poems 92%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 75% · poems 92%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 75% · poems 92%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: romantic, life
bio 74% · poems 91%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
82% affinity
Shared: suffering, love
bio 74% · poems 91%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
81% affinity
Shared: london
bio 73% · poems 91%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
81% affinity
Shared: beauty, death
bio 73% · poems 90%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
81% affinity
Shared: life
bio 75% · poems 89%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
81% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 73% · poems 90%