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 Shaemas O'Sheel
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
81% affinity
bio 81%
George O'Neil
13 September 1896–23 May 1940 (~44)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Jeremiah Joseph Callanan
1795–19 September 1839 (~44)
76% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 76%
John Boyle O'Reilly
28 June 1844–10 August 1890 (~46)
75% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 75%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
74% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 74%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
73% affinity
Shared: irish nationalism, irish
bio 73%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Antoine Ó Raifteirí
c. 30 March 1779–25 December 1835 (~56)
73% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 73%
William H. A. Moore
c. 1885–1960 (~75)
73% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 73%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
73% affinity
Shared: irish literary revival, irish
bio 73%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
72% affinity
Shared: new york city, irish literary revival, irish
bio 72%