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 William Makepeace Thackeray
Thomas Love Peacock
18 October 1785–23 January 1866 (~81)
78% affinity
Shared: social, novel
bio 75% · poems 81%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: trinity college, social
bio 71% · poems 83%
Charles Kingsley
12 June 1819–23 January 1875 (~56)
76% affinity
Shared: social, novel
bio 70% · poems 85%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
76% affinity
Shared: social, novel, fiction
bio 69% · poems 86%
Leigh Hunt
19 October 1784–28 August 1859 (~75)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 85%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 85%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
75% affinity
Shared: trinity college, social
bio 68% · poems 85%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
75% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 69% · poems 82%
Charles Whitehead
4 October 1804–5 July 1862 (~58)
75% affinity
Shared: social, fiction
bio 74% · poems 77%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67% · poems 85%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
75% affinity
Shared: social, beauty
bio 68% · poems 83%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
75% affinity
bio 66% · poems 85%