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 Paul Éluard
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
79% affinity
Shared: french, paris
bio 79%
Alphonse de Lamartine
21 October 1790–1 March 1869 (~79)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Paul-Jean Toulet
5 June 1867–6 September 1920 (~53)
76% affinity
Shared: french
bio 76%
Paul Valéry
30 October 1871–20 July 1945 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: french
bio 75%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
74% affinity
Shared: french, paris
bio 74%
Ernst Stadler
11 August 1883–30 October 1914 (~31)
72% affinity
Shared: first world war, french
bio 72%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
72% affinity
Shared: french
bio 72%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
71% affinity
Shared: french
bio 71%
Stéphane Mallarmé
18 March 1842–9 September 1898 (~56)
70% affinity
Shared: french, paris
bio 70%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Richard Le Gallienne
20 January 1866–15 September 1947 (~81)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Philip Freneau
2 January 1752–18 December 1832 (~80)
70% affinity
bio 70%