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 Algernon Charles Swinburne
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: london, desire
bio 76% · poems 90%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
82% affinity
Shared: london
bio 75% · poems 91%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74% · poems 91%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
81% affinity
Shared: london
bio 73% · poems 90%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
80% affinity
Shared: london, imagination
bio 74% · poems 89%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
80% affinity
Shared: london, french
bio 72% · poems 90%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
80% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 72% · poems 90%
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
17 August 1840–10 September 1922 (~82)
80% affinity
bio 72% · poems 90%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: pre-raphaelite movement, desire
bio 71% · poems 90%
Robert Southey
12 August 1774–21 March 1843 (~69)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: music
bio 74% · poems 85%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
79% affinity
Shared: imagination
bio 72% · poems 88%