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 Publius Aelius Hadrianus
Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC (~30)
68% affinity
Shared: roman
bio 68%
Publius Ovidius Naso
20 March 43 BC–c. 17 (~60)
67% affinity
Shared: roman, imperial
bio 67%
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
8 December 65 BC–27 November 8 BC (~38)
67% affinity
Shared: roman, rome
bio 67%
Albius Tibullus
c. 55 BC–19 BC (~36)
67% affinity
Shared: roman, imperial, rome
bio 67%
C. P. Cavafy
29 April 1863–29 April 1933 (~70)
63% affinity
bio 63%
Francesco Petrarca
1304–19 July 1374 (~70)
63% affinity
Shared: roman
bio 63%
Pindar
c. 518 BC–c. 438 BC (~80)
62% affinity
Shared: ancient
bio 62%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
62% affinity
bio 62%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
61% affinity
bio 61%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
61% affinity
bio 61%
William Alexander
c. 1567–12 February 1640 (~73)
60% affinity
bio 60%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
60% affinity
bio 60%