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 Laurence Binyon
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
85% affinity
Shared: trinity college
bio 80% · poems 91%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
83% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 79% · poems 87%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
83% affinity
Shared: scholarship
bio 77% · poems 90%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
83% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 78% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
83% affinity
Shared: museum
bio 77% · poems 90%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
82% affinity
bio 80% · poems 85%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
82% affinity
Shared: first world war, world
bio 76% · poems 90%
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
82% affinity
Shared: first world war, world
bio 79% · poems 86%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: traditions
bio 82%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
82% affinity
bio 75% · poems 91%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
82% affinity
Shared: britain
bio 79% · poems 85%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 89%