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 King James Bible
Isaac Watts
17 July 1674–25 November 1748 (~74)
70% affinity
Shared: religious, divine, psalm
bio 59% · poems 84%
Charles Kingsley
12 June 1819–23 January 1875 (~56)
69% affinity
Shared: religious, life, world
bio 61% · poems 78%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
68% affinity
Shared: biblical, religious
bio 55% · poems 85%
Cecil Frances Alexander
14 April 1818–12 October 1895 (~77)
68% affinity
Shared: religious, protestant, world
bio 58% · poems 80%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
68% affinity
Shared: religious, divine
bio 54% · poems 85%
John Milton
9 December 1608–8 November 1674 (~66)
68% affinity
Shared: religious, divine
bio 57% · poems 81%
Robert Southwell
c. 1561–21 February 1595 (~34)
68% affinity
Shared: religious, spiritual, life
bio 57% · poems 81%
Francis James Child
1 February 1825–11 September 1896 (~71)
68% affinity
bio 62% · poems 74%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
67% affinity
Shared: divine, spiritual, life
bio 55% · poems 83%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
67% affinity
Shared: religious, spiritual, life
bio 54% · poems 83%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
67% affinity
Shared: life, suffering, world
bio 55% · poems 82%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
66% affinity
Shared: divine, spiritual
bio 53% · poems 83%