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 Thom
Francis Thompson
18 December 1859–13 November 1907 (~48)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
77% affinity
bio 77%
James Thomson
c. 11 September 1700–27 August 1748 (~48)
76% affinity
Shared: grief
bio 76%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
76% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
bio 75%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74%
James Beattie
25 October 1735–18 August 1803 (~68)
74% affinity
Shared: aberdeen, scottish
bio 74%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
74% affinity
Shared: social, scottish
bio 74%
James Thomson
23 November 1834–3 June 1882 (~48)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
74% affinity
Shared: social, grief
bio 74%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
74% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 74%