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 Philip Bourke Marston
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
85% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 79% · poems 92%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
84% affinity
Shared: grief
bio 77% · poems 93%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
84% affinity
Shared: love, life, world
bio 77% · poems 92%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
83% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75% · poems 93%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
83% affinity
Shared: memory, love
bio 76% · poems 91%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
83% affinity
Shared: london, memory
bio 75% · poems 92%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
83% affinity
Shared: london, imagination
bio 76% · poems 91%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75% · poems 91%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
82% affinity
Shared: beloved, death, world
bio 75% · poems 92%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: love
bio 74% · poems 93%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
82% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74% · poems 91%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
82% affinity
Shared: imagination, love
bio 74% · poems 90%