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 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Henry Newbolt
6 June 1862–19 April 1938 (~76)
67% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
65% affinity
bio 65%
George Henry Boker
6 October 1823–2 January 1890 (~67)
65% affinity
bio 65%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
65% affinity
bio 65%
Philip Freneau
2 January 1752–18 December 1832 (~80)
64% affinity
bio 64%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
64% affinity
Shared: social
bio 64%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
63% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63%
Richard Henry Dana
15 November 1787–2 February 1879 (~92)
63% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63%
Matthew Arnold
24 December 1822–15 April 1888 (~66)
63% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
63% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63%
Alfred Kreymborg
10 December 1883–14 August 1966 (~83)
63% affinity
bio 63%
Nicholas Breton
c. 1554–c. 1625 (~71)
63% affinity
bio 63%