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 Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
84% affinity
Shared: concord, transcendentalism, harvard college
bio 81% · poems 87%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 85%
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892 (~73)
77% affinity
Shared: ralph waldo emerson, life, world
bio 72% · poems 83%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 83%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 85%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
77% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 71% · poems 83%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
76% affinity
Shared: woods, life
bio 71% · poems 83%
John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807–7 September 1892 (~85)
75% affinity
Shared: concord, civil
bio 73% · poems 77%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
75% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 69% · poems 83%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: life, spiritual
bio 68% · poems 83%
John Burroughs
3 April 1837–29 March 1921 (~84)
75% affinity
Shared: ralph waldo emerson
bio 75%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
74% affinity
Shared: transcendentalism
bio 70% · poems 80%