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 Federico García Lorca
Antonio Machado
26 July 1875–22 February 1939 (~64)
74% affinity
Shared: spanish, spain
bio 74%
Manuel Machado
29 August 1874–19 January 1947 (~73)
73% affinity
Shared: spanish civil war, spanish, spain
bio 73%
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
1836–1870 (~34)
72% affinity
Shared: spanish
bio 72%
George Henry Boker
6 October 1823–2 January 1890 (~67)
65% affinity
Shared: play
bio 65%
José María Iparraguirre
12 August 1820–6 April 1881 (~61)
64% affinity
bio 64%
Lord Byron
22 January 1788–19 April 1824 (~36)
62% affinity
bio 62%
Paul Éluard
14 December 1895–18 November 1952 (~57)
61% affinity
Shared: spanish civil war
bio 61%
Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC (~30)
61% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 61%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
61% affinity
bio 61%
Christopher Marlowe
26 February 1564–30 May 1593 (~29)
61% affinity
Shared: play
bio 61%
Fernando Pessoa
13 June 1888–30 November 1935 (~47)
61% affinity
bio 61%
Gordon Bottomley
20 February 1874–25 August 1948 (~74)
61% affinity
Shared: play
bio 61%