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 William Butler Yeats
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
85% affinity
Shared: world
bio 79% · poems 92%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
85% affinity
Shared: world, life, love
bio 79% · poems 92%
James Joyce
2 February 1882–13 January 1941 (~59)
83% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 76% · poems 91%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 91%
George William Russell
10 April 1867–17 July 1935 (~68)
82% affinity
Shared: irish literary revival, irish
bio 77% · poems 89%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
82% affinity
Shared: history
bio 78% · poems 87%
Thomas Moore
28 May 1779–25 February 1852 (~73)
82% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 75% · poems 90%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 74% · poems 91%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
82% affinity
bio 74% · poems 90%
J.M. Synge
16 April 1871–24 March 1909 (~38)
82% affinity
Shared: county dublin, irish literary revival, irish
bio 74% · poems 91%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
81% affinity
Shared: irish literary revival, irish
bio 74% · poems 90%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
81% affinity
Shared: world, memory
bio 74% · poems 90%