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 James Clarence Mangan
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: love
bio 75% · poems 91%
Thomas MacDonagh
1 February 1878–3 May 1916 (~38)
82% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 75% · poems 90%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
80% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 75% · poems 87%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 71% · poems 90%
Thomas Moore
28 May 1779–25 February 1852 (~73)
80% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 72% · poems 89%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 73% · poems 87%
J.M. Synge
16 April 1871–24 March 1909 (~38)
79% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 71% · poems 89%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: suffering, love
bio 70% · poems 89%
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
79% affinity
bio 71% · poems 88%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
78% affinity
Shared: suffering
bio 70% · poems 89%
Antoine Ó Raifteirí
c. 30 March 1779–25 December 1835 (~56)
78% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 71% · poems 88%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 88%