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 Verlaine
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
85% affinity
Shared: paris, french
bio 84% · poems 86%
Paul Valéry
30 October 1871–20 July 1945 (~74)
82% affinity
Shared: franco-prussian war, french, desire
bio 82% · poems 83%
Arthur Rimbaud
20 October 1854–10 November 1891 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: paris, franco-prussian war
bio 82%
Alphonse de Lamartine
21 October 1790–1 March 1869 (~79)
82% affinity
Shared: french
bio 82%
Pierre de Ronsard
11 September 1524–27 December 1585 (~61)
80% affinity
Shared: french
bio 77% · poems 84%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: french, helped
bio 74% · poems 88%
Paul-Jean Toulet
5 June 1867–6 September 1920 (~53)
80% affinity
Shared: french
bio 80%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
79% affinity
Shared: french
bio 74% · poems 85%
Paul Éluard
14 December 1895–18 November 1952 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: paris, french
bio 79%
Stéphane Mallarmé
18 March 1842–9 September 1898 (~56)
78% affinity
Shared: paris, french
bio 78%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
78% affinity
bio 73% · poems 83%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
77% affinity
bio 74% · poems 82%