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 Edward FitzGerald
Gerald Gould
9 April 1885–2 November 1936 (~51)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Kahlil Gibran
6 January 1883–10 April 1931 (~48)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
30 September 1207–17 December 1273 (~66)
71% affinity
Shared: persian
bio 71%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Gerald Massey
29 May 1828–29 October 1907 (~79)
71% affinity
bio 71%
James Elroy Flecker
5 November 1884–3 January 1915 (~31)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
70% affinity
bio 70%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Lionel Johnson
15 March 1867–4 October 1902 (~35)
70% affinity
bio 70%
WIlliam Collins
25 December 1721–12 June 1759 (~38)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
69% affinity
bio 69%