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 W.M. Herschell
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: world war i, newspaper
bio 77%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Sam Walter Foss
19 June 1858–26 February 1911 (~53)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Strickland Gillilan
21 September 1869–25 April 1954 (~85)
75% affinity
Shared: newspaper, popular
bio 75%
Henry Van Dyke
10 November 1852–10 April 1933 (~81)
75% affinity
bio 75%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
74% affinity
Shared: popular, ordinary
bio 74%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
74% affinity
Shared: newspaper, home
bio 74%
John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807–7 September 1892 (~85)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
74% affinity
Shared: world war i
bio 74%
Carl Sandburg
6 January 1878–22 July 1967 (~89)
74% affinity
bio 74%
James Whitcomb Riley
7 October 1849–22 July 1916 (~67)
73% affinity
Shared: indiana, popular
bio 73%