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 Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
Manuel Machado
29 August 1874–19 January 1947 (~73)
83% affinity
Shared: seville, madrid
bio 79% · poems 87%
Antonio Machado
26 July 1875–22 February 1939 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: seville, tuberculosis, spanish
bio 76% · poems 85%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: romantic, beloved
bio 70% · poems 85%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
76% affinity
Shared: woman, beloved
bio 69% · poems 85%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
76% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, romantic
bio 70% · poems 83%
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
76% affinity
bio 73% · poems 80%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
76% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, romantic
bio 68% · poems 85%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
76% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 72% · poems 80%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
75% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 72% · poems 79%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
75% affinity
Shared: woman, beloved
bio 67% · poems 84%
Clifford Bax
13 July 1886–18 November 1962 (~76)
75% affinity
Shared: romantic, memory
bio 68% · poems 83%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 70% · poems 81%