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 Thomas Carew
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 89%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: power, love
bio 75% · poems 89%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
81% affinity
Shared: middle temple
bio 74% · poems 90%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
81% affinity
Shared: ben jonson, court
bio 75% · poems 88%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
81% affinity
Shared: social, desire
bio 73% · poems 90%
John Dryden
9 August 1631–12 May 1700 (~69)
81% affinity
bio 72% · poems 91%
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: court, desire
bio 74% · poems 88%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
81% affinity
Shared: court
bio 76% · poems 86%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 85%
Sir Edward Dyer
c. October 1543–11 May 1607 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: court, culture
bio 75% · poems 86%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
80% affinity
Shared: ben jonson, social
bio 73% · poems 88%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
79% affinity
Shared: love, death
bio 73% · poems 87%