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 Edward Hovell-Thurlow
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
81% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 78% · poems 84%
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 77% · poems 84%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
80% affinity
bio 80%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
80% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 76% · poems 85%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 84%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
80% affinity
bio 80%
Frederick Tennyson
5 June 1807–26 February 1898 (~91)
80% affinity
bio 80%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
80% affinity
Shared: culture, beauty
bio 79% · poems 80%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 77% · poems 82%
James Thomson
c. 11 September 1700–27 August 1748 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 77% · poems 83%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 81% · poems 78%
Leigh Hunt
19 October 1784–28 August 1859 (~75)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 83%