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 Sir Henry Wotton
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
83% affinity
bio 83%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
83% affinity
Shared: eton college, james i
bio 79% · poems 86%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 79% · poems 82%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 87%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
80% affinity
Shared: self, beauty
bio 76% · poems 83%
John Oldham
9 August 1653–9 December 1683 (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: life, stars
bio 73% · poems 88%
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
79% affinity
bio 78% · poems 81%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 84%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 82%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 85%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
79% affinity
Shared: continental, self
bio 76% · poems 83%
William Cowper
26 November 1731–25 April 1800 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 86%