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 John Boyle O'Reilly
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 73% · poems 93%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 72% · poems 92%
George O'Neil
13 September 1896–23 May 1940 (~44)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 74% · poems 89%
Thomas Moore
28 May 1779–25 February 1852 (~73)
80% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 72% · poems 89%
George William Russell
10 April 1867–17 July 1935 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 70% · poems 89%
Thomas MacDonagh
1 February 1878–3 May 1916 (~38)
79% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 70% · poems 89%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 70% · poems 88%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
78% affinity
Shared: county meath, irish
bio 68% · poems 90%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
78% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 69% · poems 89%
Richard Realf
14 June 1832–28 October 1878 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 68% · poems 89%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 66% · poems 92%
Orrick Johns
2 June 1887–8 July 1946 (~59)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 86%