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 Pierre de Ronsard
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
80% affinity
Shared: french
bio 77% · poems 84%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: french, woman, beauty
bio 73% · poems 83%
Francesco Petrarca
1304–19 July 1374 (~70)
76% affinity
Shared: love
bio 70% · poems 83%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
76% affinity
Shared: french
bio 70% · poems 84%
Paul Valéry
30 October 1871–20 July 1945 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: french
bio 73% · poems 80%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
75% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 68% · poems 84%
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
12 May 1828–9 April 1882 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: love
bio 70% · poems 81%
Richard Lovelace
1617–1657 (~40)
75% affinity
Shared: love, beauty
bio 67% · poems 85%
John Crowe Ransom
30 April 1888–3 July 1974 (~86)
74% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 68% · poems 82%
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
8 December 65 BC–27 November 8 BC (~38)
74% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 82%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
74% affinity
Shared: french, love
bio 65% · poems 85%
Thomas, Lord Vaux
25 April 1509–c. October 1556 (~47)
74% affinity
Shared: court
bio 70% · poems 79%