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 Edgar A. Guest
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
81% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 73% · poems 90%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
81% affinity
Shared: home, newspaper
bio 75% · poems 88%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 89%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
80% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 75% · poems 86%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
80% affinity
Shared: home
bio 73% · poems 87%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
G. K. Chesterton
29 May 1874–14 June 1936 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: ordinary
bio 73% · poems 87%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Max Ehrmann
26 September 1872–9 September 1945 (~73)
79% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 72% · poems 88%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: domestic
bio 71% · poems 89%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: ordinary, life
bio 74% · poems 86%
Sam Walter Foss
19 June 1858–26 February 1911 (~53)
79% affinity
bio 79%