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 Franklin P. Adams
Ben King
17 March 1857–8 April 1894 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: light verse, newspaper
bio 75%
Owen Seaman
18 September 1861–2 February 1936 (~75)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Strickland Gillilan
21 September 1869–25 April 1954 (~85)
73% affinity
Shared: newspaper
bio 73%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
72% affinity
Shared: newspaper
bio 72%
Sam Walter Foss
19 June 1858–26 February 1911 (~53)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
71% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 71%
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
28 July 1802–15 July 1839 (~37)
71% affinity
Shared: light verse
bio 71%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
71% affinity
Shared: newspaper, newspapers
bio 71%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
71% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 71%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
70% affinity
Shared: chicago
bio 70%
William Rose Benét
2 February 1886–4 May 1950 (~64)
70% affinity
Shared: york
bio 70%