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 Edward Thomas
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
88% affinity
Shared: world
bio 82% · poems 96%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
87% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 82% · poems 93%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
86% affinity
Shared: life, beauty
bio 82% · poems 91%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
85% affinity
Shared: rural, memory, world
bio 80% · poems 92%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
85% affinity
bio 79% · poems 92%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
85% affinity
Shared: rural, landscape
bio 78% · poems 93%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
84% affinity
Shared: oxford
bio 79% · poems 91%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
84% affinity
Shared: first world war, poems
bio 79% · poems 90%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
84% affinity
bio 78% · poems 90%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
83% affinity
Shared: first world war, world
bio 77% · poems 91%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
83% affinity
Shared: memory, world
bio 76% · poems 91%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
83% affinity
Shared: memory, world
bio 76% · poems 91%