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 Theognis of Megara
Albius Tibullus
c. 55 BC–19 BC (~36)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Publius Ovidius Naso
20 March 43 BC–c. 17 (~60)
65% affinity
Shared: exile
bio 65%
Pindar
c. 518 BC–c. 438 BC (~80)
64% affinity
bio 64%
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
8 December 65 BC–27 November 8 BC (~38)
63% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63%
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
28 August 1749–22 March 1832 (~83)
61% affinity
Shared: social
bio 61%
Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC (~30)
61% affinity
Shared: social
bio 61%
William Broome
30 April 1689–16 November 1745 (~56)
61% affinity
Shared: social
bio 61%
C. P. Cavafy
29 April 1863–29 April 1933 (~70)
61% affinity
bio 61%
John Lydgate
c. 1370–c. 1450 (~80)
60% affinity
bio 60%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
60% affinity
bio 60%
Nicholas Grimald
c. 1519–c. May 1562 (~43)
60% affinity
bio 60%
George Chapman
c. 1559–12 May 1634 (~75)
59% affinity
bio 59%