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 Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Sir Aubrey de Vere
28 August 1788–5 July 1846 (~58)
94% affinity
Shared: curragh chase, county limerick, william wordsworth
bio 94%
Sir Samuel Ferguson
10 March 1810–9 August 1886 (~76)
77% affinity
Shared: great famine, irish
bio 77%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
77% affinity
bio 77%
John Keble
25 April 1792–29 March 1866 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: john henry newman, oxford movement, religious
bio 76%
Lionel Johnson
15 March 1867–4 October 1902 (~35)
75% affinity
Shared: irish, religious
bio 75%
Edward de Vere
12 April 1550–24 June 1604 (~54)
75% affinity
bio 75%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Sir Robert Ayton
1570–25 February 1638 (~68)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
1795–19 September 1839 (~44)
75% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 75%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 75%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
74% affinity
bio 74%