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 Fernando Pessoa
Francesco Petrarca
1304–19 July 1374 (~70)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
1836–1870 (~34)
70% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis
bio 70%
Manuel Machado
29 August 1874–19 January 1947 (~73)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Ezra Pound
30 October 1885–1 November 1972 (~87)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Ebenezer Jones
20 January 1820–14 September 1860 (~40)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Antonio Machado
26 July 1875–22 February 1939 (~64)
68% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis
bio 68%
George Santayana
16 December 1863–26 September 1952 (~89)
68% affinity
bio 68%
C. P. Cavafy
29 April 1863–29 April 1933 (~70)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
30 June 1803–26 January 1849 (~46)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Paul Valéry
30 October 1871–20 July 1945 (~74)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
68% affinity
bio 68%