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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Coventry Patmore

Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
22 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: grief
bio 74%
Thomas Parnell
11 September 1679–24 October 1718 (~39)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: angel
bio 74%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
2 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 73%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
4 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 73%
William Philpot
16 April 1823–16 April 1889 (~66)
1 poem analysed
73% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
10 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: grief
bio 72%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
1 poem analysed
72% affinity
bio 72%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
1 poem analysed
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
8 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
19 poems analysed
72% affinity
bio 72%
Richard Barnefield
29 June 1574–1627 (~53)
1 poem analysed
72% affinity
Shared: desire, social
bio 72%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
4 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: desire, social
bio 72%
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