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 Sydney Dobell
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
80% affinity
bio 76% · poems 85%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 87%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
80% affinity
bio 76% · poems 84%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
79% affinity
Shared: romantic, death
bio 75% · poems 84%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 82%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
79% affinity
bio 77% · poems 81%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
bio 73% · poems 85%
John Davidson
11 April 1857–23 March 1909 (~52)
78% affinity
bio 76% · poems 80%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
78% affinity
Shared: death
bio 71% · poems 86%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 72% · poems 84%
William Bell Scott
12 September 1811–22 November 1890 (~79)
78% affinity
Shared: history
bio 73% · poems 83%