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 Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
12 July 1817–6 May 1862 (~45)
84% affinity
Shared: concord, transcendentalism, harvard college
bio 81% · poems 87%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
84% affinity
Shared: nature
bio 77% · poems 92%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: nature, samuel taylor coleridge
bio 73% · poems 92%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
81% affinity
Shared: nature
bio 73% · poems 91%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
81% affinity
Shared: social, religious, world
bio 74% · poems 89%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
80% affinity
Shared: boston, harvard college
bio 73% · poems 89%
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892 (~73)
80% affinity
Shared: world, self
bio 73% · poems 90%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
80% affinity
Shared: boston, harvard college
bio 73% · poems 88%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
80% affinity
Shared: nature, religious, world
bio 71% · poems 91%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
80% affinity
Shared: nature, social
bio 72% · poems 89%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
79% affinity
Shared: nature, world
bio 72% · poems 89%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: transcendentalism
bio 74% · poems 84%