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 Mark Twain
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
73% affinity
Shared: social, speech
bio 73%
Bret Harte
25 August 1836–5 May 1902 (~66)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73%
Ben King
17 March 1857–8 April 1894 (~37)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Ernest Hemingway
21 July 1899–2 July 1961 (~62)
71% affinity
Shared: violence
bio 71%
Henry David Thoreau
12 July 1817–6 May 1862 (~45)
70% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70%
Bayard Taylor
11 January 1825–19 December 1878 (~53)
70% affinity
Shared: travel
bio 70%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
70% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70%
Tobias George Smollett
c. 19 March 1721–17 September 1771 (~50)
69% affinity
Shared: social, travel
bio 69%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
69% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
69% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69%