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 Edwin Arlington Robinson
A. Mary F. Robinson
27 February 1857–9 February 1944 (~87)
82% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 93%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 90%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: life, self
bio 72% · poems 88%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
79% affinity
Shared: pulitzer prize, life
bio 72% · poems 87%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
Shared: life, social
bio 71% · poems 87%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
78% affinity
Shared: death
bio 71% · poems 87%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
78% affinity
Shared: power, life
bio 68% · poems 90%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
78% affinity
Shared: harvard, life, social
bio 69% · poems 88%
John Crowe Ransom
30 April 1888–3 July 1974 (~86)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 88%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 86%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: life, self
bio 69% · poems 88%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
78% affinity
Shared: power, social
bio 70% · poems 87%