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 Francesco Petrarca
Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC (~30)
77% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 76% · poems 78%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 83%
Giacomo Leopardi
29 June 1798–14 June 1837 (~39)
76% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 75% · poems 78%
Pierre de Ronsard
11 September 1524–27 December 1585 (~61)
76% affinity
Shared: love
bio 70% · poems 83%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
76% affinity
Shared: love
bio 71% · poems 81%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
76% affinity
bio 71% · poems 82%
Alexander Pope
21 May 1688–30 May 1744 (~56)
75% affinity
bio 73% · poems 77%
Sir Thomas Wyatt
c. 1503–11 October 1542 (~39)
75% affinity
Shared: humanism
bio 69% · poems 82%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
75% affinity
Shared: love
bio 68% · poems 82%
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
8 December 65 BC–27 November 8 BC (~38)
75% affinity
bio 73% · poems 76%
Edmund Spenser
c. 1552–13 January 1599 (~47)
74% affinity
bio 67% · poems 84%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
74% affinity
bio 70% · poems 80%