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 Oscar Wilde
Alfred Douglas
22 October 1870–20 March 1945 (~75)
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 81% · poems 85%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
80% affinity
bio 71% · poems 91%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 71% · poems 90%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
79% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 70% · poems 90%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 90%
Algernon Charles Swinburne
5 April 1837–10 April 1909 (~72)
78% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 69% · poems 89%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 68% · poems 89%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 68% · poems 88%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66% · poems 90%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: poems, beauty
bio 66% · poems 90%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: desire, beauty
bio 70% · poems 86%
Lady Jane Wilde
27 December 1821–3 February 1896 (~75)
77% affinity
Shared: speranza, social
bio 67% · poems 89%