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 George Marion McClellan
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
82% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 78% · poems 87%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
82% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 79% · poems 86%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 77% · poems 87%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
81% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar, harlem renaissance, great migration
bio 75% · poems 88%
William H. A. Moore
c. 1885–1960 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: james weldon johnson, harlem renaissance, great migration
bio 79%
Claude McKay
15 September 1890–22 May 1948 (~58)
79% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, racial
bio 74% · poems 86%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: love, beloved
bio 70% · poems 90%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
79% affinity
bio 70% · poems 89%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: james weldon johnson, african american poetry
bio 74% · poems 85%
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 84%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 69% · poems 90%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
78% affinity
Shared: racial, harlem
bio 74% · poems 82%