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 Edgar Lee Masters
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 89%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 92%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 88%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 88%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: ordinary
bio 71% · poems 89%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
78% affinity
Shared: success
bio 71% · poems 88%
Edgar Allan Poe
19 January 1809–7 October 1849 (~40)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 89%
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892 (~73)
78% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 69% · poems 89%
Edwin Arlington Robinson
22 December 1869–6 April 1935 (~66)
78% affinity
Shared: social, power
bio 68% · poems 90%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
78% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 69% · poems 89%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
78% affinity
Shared: social, life, world
bio 68% · poems 90%
Dylan Thomas
27 October 1914–9 November 1953 (~39)
78% affinity
Shared: success
bio 68% · poems 89%