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 Joseph Blanco White
Charles Whitehead
4 October 1804–5 July 1862 (~58)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
17 August 1840–10 September 1922 (~82)
67% affinity
bio 67%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Antonio Machado
26 July 1875–22 February 1939 (~64)
66% affinity
Shared: seville, spanish, spain
bio 66%
Sir Richard Fanshawe
12 June 1608–June 1666 (~58)
66% affinity
Shared: spanish
bio 66%
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
1836–1870 (~34)
66% affinity
Shared: seville, spanish
bio 66%
Manuel Machado
29 August 1874–19 January 1947 (~73)
65% affinity
Shared: seville, spanish, spain
bio 65%
George Santayana
16 December 1863–26 September 1952 (~89)
65% affinity
Shared: spanish, religious
bio 65%
Nicholas Grimald
c. 1519–c. May 1562 (~43)
65% affinity
Shared: oxford, religious
bio 65%
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
64% affinity
Shared: catholic, priest, religious
bio 64%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
64% affinity
Shared: samuel taylor coleridge, religious
bio 64%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
64% affinity
Shared: samuel taylor coleridge, sonnet
bio 64%