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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Douglas Malloch

Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
2 poems analysed
72% affinity
bio 72%
W.M. Herschell
17 November 1873–2 December 1939 (~66)
1 poem analysed
72% affinity
Shared: popular
bio 72%
Sam Walter Foss
19 June 1858–26 February 1911 (~53)
1 poem analysed
71% affinity
Shared: progressive era
bio 71%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
3 poems analysed
71% affinity
bio 71%
Alexander Montgomerie
c. 1545–August 1598 (~53)
2 poems analysed
70% affinity
bio 70%
Joyce Kilmer
6 December 1886–30 July 1918 (~32)
1 poem analysed
70% affinity
bio 70%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
20 poems analysed
70% affinity
bio 70%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
2 poems analysed
70% affinity
bio 70%
George Reginald Margetson
1877–c. 1952 (~75)
1 poem analysed
70% affinity
bio 70%
George Edward Woodberry
12 May 1855–2 January 1930 (~75)
1 poem analysed
70% affinity
bio 70%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
23 poems analysed
70% affinity
bio 70%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
8 poems analysed
69% affinity
bio 69%
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