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 Paul-Jean Toulet
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
80% affinity
Shared: french
bio 80%
Paul Valéry
30 October 1871–20 July 1945 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: french, desire
bio 76%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: french
bio 76%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
76% affinity
Shared: mauritius, french
bio 76%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Paul Éluard
14 December 1895–18 November 1952 (~57)
76% affinity
Shared: french
bio 76%
Alphonse de Lamartine
21 October 1790–1 March 1869 (~79)
74% affinity
Shared: french, memory
bio 74%
Stéphane Mallarmé
18 March 1842–9 September 1898 (~56)
72% affinity
Shared: french
bio 72%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
71% affinity
Shared: french, memory
bio 71%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
70% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 70%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
70% affinity
Shared: french, memory
bio 70%