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 Carl Sandburg
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
79% affinity
Shared: lincoln
bio 72% · poems 87%
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892 (~73)
79% affinity
Shared: abraham lincoln, america, democratic
bio 71% · poems 89%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
79% affinity
bio 69% · poems 91%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
79% affinity
Shared: harriet monroe
bio 71% · poems 87%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: chicago, america
bio 71% · poems 87%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: pulitzer prize
bio 70% · poems 88%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 88%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
78% affinity
bio 70% · poems 88%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
78% affinity
Shared: democratic, industrial
bio 72% · poems 86%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
78% affinity
bio 70% · poems 87%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 90%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: pulitzer prize, america
bio 73% · poems 83%