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 William Sidney Walker
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
bio 75%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
75% affinity
bio 75%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
74% affinity
Shared: scholarship
bio 74%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
74% affinity
bio 74%
William Strode
c. 11 January 1602–1645 (~43)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
30 June 1803–26 January 1849 (~46)
74% affinity
bio 74%
William Walsh
6 October 1662–15 March 1708 (~46)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Samuel Rogers
30 July 1763–18 December 1855 (~92)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
73% affinity
bio 73%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
73% affinity
Shared: illness
bio 73%