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 Albius Tibullus
Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC (~30)
82% affinity
Shared: roman
bio 82%
Publius Ovidius Naso
20 March 43 BC–c. 17 (~60)
74% affinity
Shared: virgil, roman, rome
bio 74%
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
8 December 65 BC–27 November 8 BC (~38)
73% affinity
Shared: battle of philippi, virgil
bio 73%
Francesco Petrarca
1304–19 July 1374 (~70)
72% affinity
Shared: roman
bio 72%
Giacomo Leopardi
29 June 1798–14 June 1837 (~39)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
70% affinity
bio 70%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Thomas Gray
26 December 1716–30 July 1771 (~55)
70% affinity
Shared: elegy
bio 70%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Mark Alexander Boyd
1563–1601 (~38)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Theodore Tilton
2 October 1835–29 May 1907 (~72)
69% affinity
bio 69%