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 Sir Aubrey de Vere
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
10 January 1814–20 January 1902 (~88)
94% affinity
Shared: curragh chase, county limerick, william wordsworth
bio 94%
Edward de Vere
12 April 1550–24 June 1604 (~54)
80% affinity
bio 80%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 86%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
78% affinity
bio 72% · poems 86%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: childhood
bio 71% · poems 85%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
77% affinity
Shared: suffering
bio 73% · poems 83%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
8 November 1831–24 November 1891 (~60)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
77% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 71% · poems 83%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
76% affinity
bio 72% · poems 81%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
76% affinity
Shared: suffering
bio 70% · poems 84%