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 Alphonse de Lamartine
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
82% affinity
Shared: french
bio 82%
Stéphane Mallarmé
18 March 1842–9 September 1898 (~56)
78% affinity
Shared: french
bio 78%
Paul Valéry
30 October 1871–20 July 1945 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: french
bio 76%
Paul Éluard
14 December 1895–18 November 1952 (~57)
76% affinity
Shared: french
bio 76%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
76% affinity
Shared: french
bio 76%
Paul-Jean Toulet
5 June 1867–6 September 1920 (~53)
74% affinity
Shared: french
bio 74%
Philip Freneau
2 January 1752–18 December 1832 (~80)
74% affinity
Shared: revolution
bio 74%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Pierre de Ronsard
11 September 1524–27 December 1585 (~61)
73% affinity
Shared: french
bio 73%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
72% affinity
Shared: romanticism
bio 72%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
72% affinity
Shared: french
bio 72%
Arthur Rimbaud
20 October 1854–10 November 1891 (~37)
71% affinity
Shared: french
bio 71%