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 Robert Bridges
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
81% affinity
bio 75% · poems 89%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
81% affinity
Shared: speech
bio 75% · poems 88%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
81% affinity
Shared: oxford, life
bio 78% · poems 84%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 73% · poems 89%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 88%
John Freeman
29 January 1880–23 September 1929 (~49)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 77% · poems 84%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 85%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
80% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 74% · poems 88%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 85%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 73% · poems 87%
William Lisle Bowles
24 September 1762–7 April 1850 (~88)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 85%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 74% · poems 86%