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 Georg Trakl
Ernst Stadler
11 August 1883–30 October 1914 (~31)
76% affinity
Shared: expressionism
bio 76%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
28 August 1749–22 March 1832 (~83)
71% affinity
Shared: french
bio 71%
Thomas Traherne
c. 1637–27 September 1674 (~37)
70% affinity
bio 70%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Isaac Rosenberg
25 November 1890–1 April 1918 (~28)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
70% affinity
Shared: color
bio 70%
James Elroy Flecker
5 November 1884–3 January 1915 (~31)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
69% affinity
Shared: french
bio 69%
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
30 June 1803–26 January 1849 (~46)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
68% affinity
bio 68%