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 Richard Monckton Milnes
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 76% · poems 83%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 86%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 84%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: alfred tennyson
bio 69% · poems 88%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
77% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 70% · poems 87%
John Kenyon
2 December 1784–3 December 1856 (~72)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 86%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: london
bio 69% · poems 87%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: london
bio 71% · poems 84%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 83%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
76% affinity
bio 72% · poems 82%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
76% affinity
Shared: memory, romantic
bio 69% · poems 85%