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 Richard Lovelace
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
83% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 76% · poems 91%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 89%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
82% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 76% · poems 89%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 88%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 87%
William Cartwright
1 September 1611–29 November 1643 (~32)
80% affinity
Shared: royalist
bio 74% · poems 88%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
80% affinity
Shared: royalist, cavalier
bio 74% · poems 87%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: love
bio 73% · poems 88%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: social, love
bio 73% · poems 87%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 73% · poems 87%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 70% · poems 90%
Alexander Brome
1620–30 June 1666 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: royalist, cavalier
bio 76% · poems 82%