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 Hood
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
82% affinity
Shared: life
bio 75% · poems 92%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 92%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 92%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 72% · poems 92%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
81% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 72% · poems 92%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 93%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
80% affinity
Shared: romantic, life
bio 71% · poems 92%
Robert Herrick
24 August 1591–15 October 1674 (~83)
80% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 71% · poems 90%
Leigh Hunt
19 October 1784–28 August 1859 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: london, social
bio 72% · poems 89%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 91%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
80% affinity
Shared: social, woman
bio 69% · poems 92%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 91%