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 Cullen Bryant
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
82% affinity
bio 74% · poems 91%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
80% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 74% · poems 87%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 72% · poems 89%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 85%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
79% affinity
bio 70% · poems 90%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
79% affinity
Shared: civic
bio 72% · poems 88%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
79% affinity
bio 70% · poems 89%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 89%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
79% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 71% · poems 88%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
79% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 71% · poems 88%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 86%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
79% affinity
bio 70% · poems 89%