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 Dante Alighieri
Francesco Petrarca
1304–19 July 1374 (~70)
68% affinity
bio 68%
John Donne
1572–31 March 1631 (~59)
64% affinity
bio 64%
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
12 May 1828–9 April 1882 (~54)
63% affinity
bio 63%
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
28 August 1749–22 March 1832 (~83)
63% affinity
bio 63%
John Milton
9 December 1608–8 November 1674 (~66)
63% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 63%
Giacomo Leopardi
29 June 1798–14 June 1837 (~39)
63% affinity
bio 63%
Lord Byron
22 January 1788–19 April 1824 (~36)
62% affinity
bio 62%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
62% affinity
bio 62%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
62% affinity
bio 62%
Gabriele D'Annunzio
12 March 1863–1 March 1938 (~75)
62% affinity
bio 62%
Geoffrey Chaucer
c. 1343–25 October 1400 (~57)
62% affinity
Shared: divine, medieval
bio 62%
Publius Ovidius Naso
20 March 43 BC–c. 17 (~60)
62% affinity
Shared: exile
bio 62%