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 J.G. Holland
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
83% affinity
bio 76% · poems 91%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
82% affinity
bio 74% · poems 92%
Henry Scott Holland
27 January 1847–17 March 1918 (~71)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 82%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 88%
Ford Madox Hueffer
17 December 1873–26 June 1939 (~66)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 89%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
79% affinity
bio 71% · poems 89%
Herbert Gorman
January 1893–28 October 1954 (~61)
79% affinity
Shared: self, love
bio 75% · poems 84%
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
11 November 1836–19 March 1907 (~71)
78% affinity
Shared: civil war, social
bio 76% · poems 82%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: nature
bio 72% · poems 86%
Bayard Taylor
11 January 1825–19 December 1878 (~53)
78% affinity
Shared: helped
bio 74% · poems 83%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
78% affinity
bio 70% · poems 87%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 86%