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 Henry Vaughan
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 76% · poems 88%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
81% affinity
Shared: the temple, religious, devotional
bio 77% · poems 87%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: childhood, life
bio 76% · poems 86%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: life, self
bio 76% · poems 86%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: light
bio 76% · poems 85%
Thomas Traherne
c. 1637–27 September 1674 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: childhood, divine
bio 79% · poems 81%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: divine, grace, spiritual
bio 73% · poems 87%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
79% affinity
bio 79%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 78% · poems 81%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: light, life
bio 74% · poems 84%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 84%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
79% affinity
Shared: religious, life
bio 73% · poems 85%