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 Manuel Machado
Antonio Machado
26 July 1875–22 February 1939 (~64)
90% affinity
Shared: seville, demófilo, generation of '98
bio 89% · poems 90%
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
1836–1870 (~34)
83% affinity
Shared: seville, spanish, madrid
bio 79% · poems 87%
Federico García Lorca
5 June 1898–19 August 1936 (~38)
73% affinity
Shared: spanish civil war, spanish, spain
bio 73%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
71% affinity
bio 63% · poems 81%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
71% affinity
bio 63% · poems 81%
Walter de la Mare
25 April 1873–22 June 1956 (~83)
71% affinity
bio 64% · poems 79%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
71% affinity
bio 64% · poems 78%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
71% affinity
bio 62% · poems 81%
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
71% affinity
Shared: paris
bio 65% · poems 78%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
71% affinity
bio 63% · poems 80%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
70% affinity
Shared: heart
bio 65% · poems 77%
Bliss Carman
15 April 1861–8 June 1929 (~68)
70% affinity
bio 62% · poems 80%