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 Douglas Hyde
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 68% · poems 91%
Thomas Moore
28 May 1779–25 February 1852 (~73)
78% affinity
Shared: trinity college dublin, irish
bio 69% · poems 88%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
77% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 68% · poems 89%
Antoine Ó Raifteirí
c. 30 March 1779–25 December 1835 (~56)
76% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 68% · poems 86%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
76% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 71% · poems 83%
James Joyce
2 February 1882–13 January 1941 (~59)
76% affinity
Shared: irish, love
bio 66% · poems 88%
Sir Samuel Ferguson
10 March 1810–9 August 1886 (~76)
76% affinity
Shared: trinity college dublin, irish
bio 76%
Thomas MacDonagh
1 February 1878–3 May 1916 (~38)
75% affinity
Shared: gaelic league, irish
bio 67% · poems 85%
George William Russell
10 April 1867–17 July 1935 (~68)
75% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 68% · poems 83%
James Clarence Mangan
1 May 1803–20 June 1849 (~46)
74% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 63% · poems 87%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
74% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 64% · poems 86%
J.M. Synge
16 April 1871–24 March 1909 (~38)
73% affinity
Shared: trinity college dublin, irish
bio 64% · poems 85%