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 Stéphane Mallarmé
Paul Valéry
30 October 1871–20 July 1945 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: french
bio 81%
Alphonse de Lamartine
21 October 1790–1 March 1869 (~79)
78% affinity
Shared: french
bio 78%
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
78% affinity
Shared: paris, music, french
bio 78%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: paris, edgar allan poe, french
bio 77%
Arthur Rimbaud
20 October 1854–10 November 1891 (~37)
73% affinity
Shared: paris, french
bio 73%
Paul-Jean Toulet
5 June 1867–6 September 1920 (~53)
72% affinity
Shared: french
bio 72%
Paul Éluard
14 December 1895–18 November 1952 (~57)
70% affinity
Shared: paris, french
bio 70%
Pierre de Ronsard
11 September 1524–27 December 1585 (~61)
70% affinity
Shared: french
bio 70%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
68% affinity
Shared: french
bio 68%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
68% affinity
Shared: french
bio 68%