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 Giacomo Leopardi
Francesco Petrarca
1304–19 July 1374 (~70)
76% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 75% · poems 78%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
74% affinity
Shared: world
bio 70% · poems 79%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
74% affinity
Shared: romanticism
bio 70% · poems 79%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: philosophical, nature
bio 68% · poems 81%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
73% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, nature, world
bio 69% · poems 78%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
73% affinity
Shared: desire, memory, world
bio 67% · poems 79%
Lord Byron
22 January 1788–19 April 1824 (~36)
72% affinity
Shared: nature, world, romantic
bio 66% · poems 80%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
72% affinity
Shared: nature, world
bio 67% · poems 78%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
72% affinity
Shared: memory, world
bio 66% · poems 80%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
72% affinity
Shared: desire, memory
bio 67% · poems 78%
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
72% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 71% · poems 73%