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 Michael Bruce
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
77% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 77%
David Gray
29 January 1838–3 December 1861 (~23)
77% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, romantic
bio 77%
Robert Williams Buchanan
18 August 1841–10 June 1901 (~60)
77% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 77%
John Barbour
c. 1316–13 March 1395 (~79)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish, culture
bio 76%
William Browne, of Tavistock
c. 1588–c. 1650 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 76%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
75% affinity
Shared: scottish enlightenment, scottish
bio 75%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
75% affinity
Shared: scottish, culture
bio 75%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
75% affinity
bio 75%
John Scott
9 January 1730–12 December 1783 (~53)
75% affinity
Shared: rural, eighteenth
bio 75%
James Beattie
25 October 1735–18 August 1803 (~68)
75% affinity
Shared: scottish enlightenment, rural
bio 75%