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 Sam Walter Foss
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
79% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 79%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
79% affinity
bio 79%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Arthur Davison Ficke
10 November 1883–30 November 1945 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: education
bio 76%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
76% affinity
bio 76%
George Edward Woodberry
12 May 1855–2 January 1930 (~75)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
75% affinity
bio 75%
W.M. Herschell
17 November 1873–2 December 1939 (~66)
75% affinity
bio 75%