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 Charles Baudelaire
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
85% affinity
Shared: paris, french
bio 84% · poems 86%
Paul Valéry
30 October 1871–20 July 1945 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: french, desire
bio 77% · poems 85%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: french, desire
bio 74% · poems 86%
Arthur Rimbaud
20 October 1854–10 November 1891 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: paris
bio 78%
Pierre de Ronsard
11 September 1524–27 December 1585 (~61)
77% affinity
Shared: french, beauty, woman
bio 73% · poems 83%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
77% affinity
Shared: world, woman
bio 71% · poems 85%
Edgar Allan Poe
19 January 1809–7 October 1849 (~40)
77% affinity
Shared: financial, world, beauty
bio 70% · poems 86%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
77% affinity
Shared: french, world
bio 72% · poems 84%
Oscar Wilde
16 October 1854–30 November 1900 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: desire, beauty
bio 70% · poems 86%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
77% affinity
Shared: illness, world, beauty
bio 71% · poems 84%
Stéphane Mallarmé
18 March 1842–9 September 1898 (~56)
77% affinity
Shared: paris, edgar allan poe, french
bio 77%
Paul-Jean Toulet
5 June 1867–6 September 1920 (~53)
76% affinity
Shared: mauritius
bio 76%