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 Joyce Kilmer
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
74% affinity
Shared: name
bio 74%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
73% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
73% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 73%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
72% affinity
Shared: faith
bio 72%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
72% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 72%
Charles Wolfe
14 December 1791–21 February 1823 (~32)
72% affinity
bio 72%
George Herbert
3 April 1593–1 March 1633 (~40)
71% affinity
Shared: religious, devotional
bio 71%