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 Hart Crane
Stephen Crane
1 November 1871–5 June 1900 (~29)
84% affinity
bio 79% · poems 90%
Sadakichi Hartmann
8 November 1867–22 November 1944 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 85%
E. E. Cummings
14 October 1894–3 September 1962 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 71% · poems 88%
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892 (~73)
79% affinity
Shared: brooklyn, america, york
bio 70% · poems 89%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: world, memory
bio 71% · poems 88%
Robert Bridges
23 October 1844–21 April 1930 (~86)
78% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 71% · poems 87%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
78% affinity
Shared: world, beauty
bio 69% · poems 88%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
78% affinity
Shared: world, beauty
bio 67% · poems 90%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: grace, world, life
bio 70% · poems 87%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
77% affinity
Shared: america, life
bio 68% · poems 89%
Bliss Carman
15 April 1861–8 June 1929 (~68)
77% affinity
Shared: world, life, beauty
bio 68% · poems 89%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: myth, world
bio 68% · poems 88%