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 Samuel Ferguson
Robert Fergusson
5 September 1750–16 October 1774 (~24)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
10 January 1814–20 January 1902 (~88)
77% affinity
Shared: great famine, irish
bio 77%
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
1795–19 September 1839 (~44)
76% affinity
Shared: trinity college dublin, irish
bio 76%
Douglas Hyde
17 January 1860–12 July 1949 (~89)
76% affinity
Shared: trinity college dublin, irish
bio 76%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: celtic revival
bio 75%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
75% affinity
Shared: belfast, irish
bio 75%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Charles Harding Firth
16 March 1857–19 February 1936 (~79)
74% affinity
bio 74%
George William Russell
10 April 1867–17 July 1935 (~68)
74% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 74%
William Allingham
19 March 1824–18 November 1889 (~65)
73% affinity
Shared: great famine, irish
bio 73%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
73% affinity
bio 73%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
73% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 73%