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 Paul Valéry
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
82% affinity
Shared: franco-prussian war, french
bio 82% · poems 83%
Stéphane Mallarmé
18 March 1842–9 September 1898 (~56)
81% affinity
Shared: french
bio 81%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
81% affinity
Shared: french, desire
bio 77% · poems 85%
Alphonse de Lamartine
21 October 1790–1 March 1869 (~79)
80% affinity
Shared: french, love
bio 76% · poems 84%
Arthur Rimbaud
20 October 1854–10 November 1891 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: franco-prussian war, french
bio 74% · poems 83%
Paul-Jean Toulet
5 June 1867–6 September 1920 (~53)
76% affinity
Shared: french, desire
bio 76%
Pierre de Ronsard
11 September 1524–27 December 1585 (~61)
76% affinity
Shared: french
bio 73% · poems 80%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
76% affinity
Shared: french, love
bio 70% · poems 82%
Paul Éluard
14 December 1895–18 November 1952 (~57)
75% affinity
Shared: french
bio 75%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
75% affinity
bio 71% · poems 81%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
74% affinity
Shared: french, love
bio 68% · poems 82%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: love, self
bio 68% · poems 81%