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 Antonio Machado
Manuel Machado
29 August 1874–19 January 1947 (~73)
90% affinity
Shared: generation of '98, seville, demófilo
bio 89% · poems 90%
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
1836–1870 (~34)
80% affinity
Shared: seville, tuberculosis, spanish
bio 76% · poems 85%
Federico García Lorca
5 June 1898–19 August 1936 (~38)
74% affinity
Shared: spanish, spain
bio 74%
James Clarence Mangan
1 May 1803–20 June 1849 (~46)
73% affinity
bio 66% · poems 82%
Joaquin Miller
8 September 1837–17 February 1913 (~76)
73% affinity
Shared: landscape, life, love
bio 68% · poems 79%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
73% affinity
Shared: life
bio 65% · poems 83%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
73% affinity
Shared: landscape, life, love
bio 64% · poems 83%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
72% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 63% · poems 84%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
72% affinity
Shared: french, life
bio 64% · poems 83%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
72% affinity
Shared: life
bio 65% · poems 82%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
72% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, french
bio 63% · poems 84%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
72% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 64% · poems 82%