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 Brighty Rands
Walter de la Mare
25 April 1873–22 June 1956 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: imaginative, childhood
bio 74% · poems 83%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
77% affinity
bio 69% · poems 86%
Edward Lear
12 May 1812–29 January 1888 (~76)
77% affinity
Shared: imaginative, social
bio 71% · poems 84%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%
A. A. Milne
18 January 1882–31 January 1956 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: imaginative
bio 69% · poems 86%
Eugene Field
2 September 1850–4 November 1895 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: childhood
bio 71% · poems 82%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
76% affinity
Shared: childhood, self
bio 70% · poems 83%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
76% affinity
Shared: childhood
bio 71% · poems 82%
John Crowe Ransom
30 April 1888–3 July 1974 (~86)
75% affinity
bio 69% · poems 83%
Ralph Hodgson
9 September 1871–3 November 1962 (~91)
75% affinity
Shared: imaginative, reputation
bio 71% · poems 81%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
75% affinity
bio 71% · poems 81%
E. Nesbit
15 August 1858–4 May 1924 (~66)
75% affinity
Shared: childhood
bio 72% · poems 80%