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 Bell Scott
John Scott
9 January 1730–12 December 1783 (~53)
87% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 87%
Sir Walter Scott
15 August 1771–21 September 1832 (~61)
86% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, history
bio 87% · poems 86%
Alexander Scott
c. 1525–c. 1584 (~59)
84% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish
bio 84%
John Gibson Lockhart
12 June 1794–25 November 1854 (~60)
80% affinity
Shared: edinburgh, scottish enlightenment, scottish
bio 80%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: history, landscape, life
bio 74% · poems 88%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
80% affinity
Shared: scottish, life
bio 76% · poems 84%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: relationship, life, self
bio 74% · poems 86%
Allan Cunningham
7 December 1784–30 October 1842 (~58)
79% affinity
Shared: scottish
bio 76% · poems 83%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 87%
William Drummond
13 December 1585–4 December 1649 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: history, scottish, life
bio 77% · poems 80%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 87%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 86%