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 Bliss Carman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
81% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 73% · poems 91%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
80% affinity
Shared: lyrics, world
bio 74% · poems 87%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 70% · poems 91%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 74% · poems 86%
Wilfred Campbell
1 June 1860–1 January 1918 (~58)
79% affinity
Shared: canada
bio 79%
Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
14 September 1883–22 April 1922 (~39)
79% affinity
Shared: canada
bio 73% · poems 86%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
79% affinity
Shared: songs
bio 71% · poems 89%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 88%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: romantic, world, nature
bio 68% · poems 91%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 71% · poems 87%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
78% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 68% · poems 91%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
78% affinity
bio 72% · poems 86%