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 Johnson Cory
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 88%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
79% affinity
Shared: social, death
bio 73% · poems 87%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
78% affinity
Shared: death, love
bio 71% · poems 86%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: eton
bio 69% · poems 88%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
77% affinity
Shared: death, love
bio 70% · poems 87%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
77% affinity
bio 69% · poems 87%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: death
bio 70% · poems 86%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 85%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67% · poems 89%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: history
bio 70% · poems 86%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
77% affinity
bio 68% · poems 87%