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 Wilfred Owen
Siegfried Sassoon
8 September 1886–1 September 1967 (~81)
86% affinity
Shared: first world war
bio 81% · poems 93%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
85% affinity
Shared: first world war, death
bio 82% · poems 89%
Isaac Rosenberg
25 November 1890–1 April 1918 (~28)
82% affinity
Shared: first world war, soldiers
bio 77% · poems 88%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
82% affinity
Shared: first world war, soldiers
bio 79% · poems 86%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
82% affinity
Shared: first world war, desire, death
bio 79% · poems 85%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
82% affinity
Shared: first world war, death
bio 77% · poems 87%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
81% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 75% · poems 89%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
81% affinity
Shared: soldiers, world
bio 76% · poems 88%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
81% affinity
Shared: desire, death
bio 76% · poems 87%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
81% affinity
Shared: shropshire, death
bio 74% · poems 89%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
81% affinity
Shared: youth
bio 75% · poems 87%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
80% affinity
Shared: suffering, love
bio 76% · poems 86%