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 Gibson Lockhart
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
85% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 85%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish enlightenment, scottish, edinburgh
bio 80%
John Scott
9 January 1730–12 December 1783 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 78%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
78% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 78%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
75% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 75%
William Sharp
12 September 1855–12 December 1905 (~50)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Allan Cunningham
7 December 1784–30 October 1842 (~58)
72% affinity
Shared: social, blackwood
bio 72%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
72% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72%
James Beattie
25 October 1735–18 August 1803 (~68)
72% affinity
Shared: scottish enlightenment
bio 72%
William Sidney Walker
4 December 1795–15 October 1846 (~51)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Tobias George Smollett
c. 19 March 1721–17 September 1771 (~50)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
71% affinity
Shared: social, scottish
bio 71%