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 Pindar
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
8 December 65 BC–27 November 8 BC (~38)
73% affinity
Shared: odes
bio 73%
Thomas Parnell
11 September 1679–24 October 1718 (~39)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Publius Ovidius Naso
20 March 43 BC–c. 17 (~60)
68% affinity
Shared: power
bio 68%
Matthew Prior
c. July 1664–18 September 1721 (~57)
67% affinity
bio 67%
Francis Pilkington
c. 1565–1638 (~73)
67% affinity
bio 67%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
66% affinity
bio 66%
George Chapman
c. 1559–12 May 1634 (~75)
66% affinity
Shared: power
bio 66%
Abraham Cowley
1618–28 July 1667 (~49)
66% affinity
Shared: odes
bio 66%
Albius Tibullus
c. 55 BC–19 BC (~36)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC (~30)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Francesco Petrarca
1304–19 July 1374 (~70)
66% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 66%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
66% affinity
bio 66%