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 Publius Ovidius Naso
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
8 December 65 BC–27 November 8 BC (~38)
81% affinity
Shared: virgil, roman
bio 77% · poems 85%
Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC (~30)
78% affinity
Shared: roman, erotic
bio 76% · poems 81%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
76% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 82%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 69% · poems 84%
Lord Byron
22 January 1788–19 April 1824 (~36)
75% affinity
bio 68% · poems 83%
Albius Tibullus
c. 55 BC–19 BC (~36)
74% affinity
Shared: virgil, roman
bio 74%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
74% affinity
Shared: hope
bio 67% · poems 82%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
73% affinity
Shared: world
bio 65% · poems 83%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
73% affinity
bio 65% · poems 83%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
73% affinity
Shared: fame
bio 68% · poems 79%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
72% affinity
Shared: desire, world
bio 65% · poems 81%
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
8 November 1831–24 November 1891 (~60)
72% affinity
Shared: imperial
bio 66% · poems 81%