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 Henry Taylor
Bayard Taylor
11 January 1825–19 December 1878 (~53)
83% affinity
bio 82% · poems 83%
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
82% affinity
Shared: colonial
bio 82%
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 85%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 86%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 85%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 84%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: self
bio 75% · poems 82%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: self, life
bio 72% · poems 85%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
77% affinity
Shared: drama
bio 71% · poems 85%
Frederick Tennyson
5 June 1807–26 February 1898 (~91)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 84%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
77% affinity
Shared: self
bio 72% · poems 84%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 82%