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 Joaquin Miller
Bret Harte
25 August 1836–5 May 1902 (~66)
78% affinity
Shared: frontier
bio 76% · poems 81%
George Sterling
1 December 1869–17 November 1926 (~57)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 84%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
77% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 72% · poems 84%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: california
bio 72% · poems 83%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
77% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 68% · poems 87%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: popular, life
bio 70% · poems 84%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: romantic, helped
bio 69% · poems 86%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
76% affinity
Shared: california
bio 71% · poems 82%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 85%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
76% affinity
bio 68% · poems 85%
Sir Lewis Morris
23 January 1833–12 November 1907 (~74)
76% affinity
bio 67% · poems 87%