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 Charles Tennyson Turner

Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
27 poems analysed
87% affinity
Shared: lincolnshire, poems by two brothers
bio 83% · poems 90%
Frederick Tennyson
5 June 1807–26 February 1898 (~91)
1 poem analysed
83% affinity
Shared: somersby rectory, lincolnshire, poems by two brothers
bio 83%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
24 poems analysed
82% affinity
Shared: rural england, name
bio 78% · poems 88%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
10 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: sonnet, life
bio 74% · poems 88%
Thomas Chatterton
20 November 1752–24 August 1770 (~18)
5 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: life, divine
bio 74% · poems 87%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
51 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: rural, life, beauty
bio 72% · poems 89%
Alfred Austin
30 May 1835–2 June 1913 (~78)
17 poems analysed
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
3 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 74% · poems 87%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
19 poems analysed
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
22 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 88%
Thomas Flatman
21 February 1635–8 December 1688 (~53)
2 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: death
bio 74% · poems 85%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
22 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: life, death
bio 72% · poems 87%
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