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 John Keble
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: church, religious
bio 80%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
80% affinity
Shared: church, parish, religious
bio 80%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Sir John Beaumont
c. 1583–19 April 1627 (~44)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
77% affinity
Shared: church, oxford, religious
bio 77%
John Kenyon
2 December 1784–3 December 1856 (~72)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Thomas Edwards Hankinson
19 June 1805–6 October 1843 (~38)
77% affinity
Shared: church, religious
bio 77%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 77%
Thomas Traherne
c. 1637–27 September 1674 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: anglican
bio 76%
Francis Quarles
8 May 1592–8 September 1644 (~52)
76% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 76%