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 Charles Whitehead
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 86%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74% · poems 86%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 86%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: life, light
bio 72% · poems 87%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
79% affinity
Shared: victorian literature
bio 72% · poems 86%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
79% affinity
Shared: life, light
bio 73% · poems 86%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
79% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72% · poems 86%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
78% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 75% · poems 83%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
78% affinity
Shared: london, romanticism
bio 74% · poems 83%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 86%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72% · poems 85%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 72% · poems 85%