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 Laurence Dunbar
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
83% affinity
bio 79% · poems 88%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
83% affinity
bio 81% · poems 86%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
82% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 76% · poems 89%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
82% affinity
bio 78% · poems 87%
George Marion McClellan
29 September 1860–17 May 1934 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 77% · poems 87%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 77% · poems 86%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: racial, african
bio 74% · poems 88%
Alice Dunbar Nelson
19 July 1875–18 September 1935 (~60)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 88%
Langston Hughes
1 February 1902–22 May 1967 (~65)
79% affinity
Shared: racial, african
bio 72% · poems 88%
William Dunbar
c. 1460–c. 1520 (~60)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Daniel Webster Davis
25 March 1862–11 October 1913 (~51)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 85%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 74% · poems 85%