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 Ben King
Henry King
16 January 1592–30 September 1669 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 78%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 82%
William Rose Benét
2 February 1886–4 May 1950 (~64)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 78%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 81%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 79%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
76% affinity
bio 74% · poems 78%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
76% affinity
Shared: king
bio 73% · poems 78%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 82%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: popular
bio 69% · poems 82%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 80%
Franklin P. Adams
15 November 1881–23 March 1960 (~79)
75% affinity
Shared: light verse
bio 75%
Samuel Hoffenstein
8 October 1890–6 October 1947 (~57)
75% affinity
Shared: light verse, humor
bio 70% · poems 80%