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 Antoine Ó Raifteirí
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77% · poems 87%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 75% · poems 87%
James Clarence Mangan
1 May 1803–20 June 1849 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 71% · poems 88%
Thomas Moore
28 May 1779–25 February 1852 (~73)
78% affinity
Shared: irish, social
bio 72% · poems 86%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
77% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 72% · poems 84%
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
1795–19 September 1839 (~44)
77% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 77%
John Boyle O'Reilly
28 June 1844–10 August 1890 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 70% · poems 85%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 70% · poems 85%
Thomas MacDonagh
1 February 1878–3 May 1916 (~38)
77% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 69% · poems 86%
Douglas Hyde
17 January 1860–12 July 1949 (~89)
76% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 68% · poems 86%
George William Russell
10 April 1867–17 July 1935 (~68)
76% affinity
Shared: irish, social
bio 72% · poems 82%
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 69% · poems 84%