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.

S.E.K. Mqhayi

1 December 1875–29 July 1945 (~70)

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Poets whose work rhymes most with S.E.K. Mqhayi

William H. A. Moore

c. 1885–1960 (~75)

1 poem analysed

Shared: african

George Reginald Margetson

1877–c. 1952 (~75)

1 poem analysed

Shared: colonial

William Stanley Braithwaite

6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)

2 poems analysed

Arthur Shearly Cripps

10 June 1869–1 August 1952 (~83)

1 poem analysed

Shared: african, colonial

J. Milton Hayes

1884–1940 (~56)

1 poem analysed

21 July 1921–25 March 2020 (~99)

1 poem analysed

Shared: african

Edward Rowland Sill

29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)

2 poems analysed

Amastan Ag Mohamed

c. 1803–1878 (~75)

1 poem analysed

Benjamin Griffith Brawley

22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)

2 poems analysed

Shared: african

2 April 1884–20 December 1958 (~74)

1 poem analysed

19 January 1869–4 January 1924 (~55)

2 poems analysed

Charles Frederick White

1876–1955 (~79)

2 poems analysed