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 Arthur Rimbaud
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
82% affinity
Shared: franco-prussian war
bio 82%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: paris, french
bio 78%
Paul Valéry
30 October 1871–20 July 1945 (~74)
74% affinity
Shared: franco-prussian war, french, desire
bio 74%
Stéphane Mallarmé
18 March 1842–9 September 1898 (~56)
73% affinity
Shared: paris, french
bio 73%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
72% affinity
Shared: french
bio 72%
Alphonse de Lamartine
21 October 1790–1 March 1869 (~79)
71% affinity
Shared: french
bio 71%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
70% affinity
Shared: french
bio 70%
Giacomo Leopardi
29 June 1798–14 June 1837 (~39)
70% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 70%
Isaac Rosenberg
25 November 1890–1 April 1918 (~28)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Paul-Jean Toulet
5 June 1867–6 September 1920 (~53)
70% affinity
Shared: french, desire
bio 70%