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 Philip Freneau
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Thomas Godfrey
4 December 1736–3 August 1763 (~27)
78% affinity
Shared: colonial
bio 78%
Richard Henry Dana
15 November 1787–2 February 1879 (~92)
75% affinity
Shared: helped
bio 75%
John Freeman
29 January 1880–23 September 1929 (~49)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
75% affinity
bio 75%
John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807–7 September 1892 (~85)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Alphonse de Lamartine
21 October 1790–1 March 1869 (~79)
74% affinity
bio 74%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Sam Walter Foss
19 June 1858–26 February 1911 (~53)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
73% affinity
Shared: helped
bio 73%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
73% affinity
bio 73%