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 Gaius Valerius Catullus
Albius Tibullus
c. 55 BC–19 BC (~36)
82% affinity
Shared: roman
bio 82%
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
8 December 65 BC–27 November 8 BC (~38)
79% affinity
Shared: roman, social
bio 77% · poems 82%
Publius Ovidius Naso
20 March 43 BC–c. 17 (~60)
78% affinity
Shared: roman, erotic
bio 76% · poems 81%
Francesco Petrarca
1304–19 July 1374 (~70)
77% affinity
Shared: roman
bio 76% · poems 78%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
76% affinity
Shared: love, life
bio 73% · poems 78%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
74% affinity
Shared: social, love
bio 70% · poems 80%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
74% affinity
Shared: surviving, love
bio 71% · poems 78%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
74% affinity
Shared: love
bio 70% · poems 78%
Thomas Carew
1595–22 March 1640 (~45)
73% affinity
Shared: social, erotic
bio 70% · poems 78%
C. P. Cavafy
29 April 1863–29 April 1933 (~70)
73% affinity
Shared: erotic
bio 73%
Lord Byron
22 January 1788–19 April 1824 (~36)
73% affinity
Shared: social, sexual
bio 69% · poems 79%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
73% affinity
Shared: love, life
bio 69% · poems 78%