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)
83% affinity
Shared: franco-prussian war
bio 82% · poems 85%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
82% affinity
Shared: paris, french
bio 78% · poems 87%
Paul Valéry
30 October 1871–20 July 1945 (~74)
78% affinity
Shared: franco-prussian war, french, desire
bio 74% · poems 83%
Alphonse de Lamartine
21 October 1790–1 March 1869 (~79)
77% affinity
Shared: french
bio 71% · poems 85%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
77% affinity
Shared: nature, beauty
bio 70% · poems 86%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: french
bio 72% · poems 84%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
77% affinity
Shared: death, world
bio 71% · poems 84%
Isaac Rosenberg
25 November 1890–1 April 1918 (~28)
76% affinity
Shared: soldier, death
bio 70% · poems 83%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
76% affinity
Shared: desire, soldier, death
bio 69% · poems 83%
Lord Byron
22 January 1788–19 April 1824 (~36)
76% affinity
Shared: nature
bio 69% · poems 83%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: death, beauty
bio 68% · poems 84%
Pierre de Ronsard
11 September 1524–27 December 1585 (~61)
75% affinity
Shared: french
bio 70% · poems 83%