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 Frederick Tennyson
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
85% affinity
Shared: lincolnshire, poems by two brothers
bio 85%
Charles Tennyson Turner
4 July 1808–25 April 1879 (~71)
83% affinity
Shared: somersby rectory, lincolnshire, trinity college cambridge
bio 83%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
80% affinity
Shared: music
bio 80%
John Kenyon
2 December 1784–3 December 1856 (~72)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
77% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 77%
John Freeman
29 January 1880–23 September 1929 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 77%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
76% affinity
bio 76%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
76% affinity
Shared: imaginative
bio 76%