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 Arthur Macy
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
76% affinity
Shared: love, life
bio 69% · poems 84%
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
76% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 81%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
75% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 67% · poems 86%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
74% affinity
Shared: detroit, culture, love
bio 63% · poems 86%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
74% affinity
Shared: life
bio 65% · poems 84%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
73% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 65% · poems 83%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
73% affinity
Shared: love, life, world
bio 64% · poems 84%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
73% affinity
Shared: boston, love, life
bio 62% · poems 87%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
73% affinity
Shared: love, life, world
bio 64% · poems 83%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
73% affinity
Shared: life
bio 65% · poems 82%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
73% affinity
Shared: island
bio 65% · poems 82%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
73% affinity
Shared: boston, love, life
bio 63% · poems 85%