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 Nixon Waterman
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
81% affinity
bio 75% · poems 88%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
81% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 89%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: love
bio 77% · poems 83%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
John Drinkwater
1 June 1882–25 March 1937 (~55)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 88%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
Eugene Field
2 September 1850–4 November 1895 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: newspaper, success
bio 75% · poems 84%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 89%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: popular, life
bio 73% · poems 86%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: popular
bio 70% · poems 89%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
79% affinity
Shared: life, rose
bio 73% · poems 86%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 84%