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 Banjo Paterson
Robert Burns
25 January 1759–21 July 1796 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: gave, life
bio 69% · poems 84%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
76% affinity
bio 70% · poems 83%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 83%
Charles Mackay
27 March 1814–24 December 1889 (~75)
75% affinity
Shared: river, life
bio 69% · poems 83%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 82%
Bliss Carman
15 April 1861–8 June 1929 (~68)
75% affinity
bio 70% · poems 82%
Carl Sandburg
6 January 1878–22 July 1967 (~89)
75% affinity
bio 67% · poems 84%
Patrick Reginald Chalmers
27 June 1872–12 September 1942 (~70)
75% affinity
Shared: country
bio 68% · poems 84%
Robert Williams Buchanan
18 August 1841–10 June 1901 (~60)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 69% · poems 82%
T. E. Brown
5 May 1830–29 October 1897 (~67)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 82%
Joseph Campbell
15 July 1879–6 June 1944 (~65)
75% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 68% · poems 82%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
74% affinity
Shared: country, life
bio 68% · poems 82%