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 Cale Young Rice
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
82% affinity
Shared: kentucky, louisville
bio 77% · poems 88%
John Crowe Ransom
30 April 1888–3 July 1974 (~86)
82% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 76% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 90%
John Drinkwater
1 June 1882–25 March 1937 (~55)
79% affinity
bio 70% · poems 90%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: inherited
bio 73% · poems 86%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: inherited, religious
bio 74% · poems 83%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: philosophical, religious
bio 69% · poems 89%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 89%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
78% affinity
Shared: harvard university, world
bio 71% · poems 87%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 90%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 67% · poems 90%
William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878 (~84)
78% affinity
bio 69% · poems 87%