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 James Whitcomb Riley
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 89%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
78% affinity
Shared: significant
bio 72% · poems 86%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
77% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 69% · poems 87%
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: love
bio 69% · poems 87%
John Crowe Ransom
30 April 1888–3 July 1974 (~86)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 85%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: popular, life
bio 69% · poems 86%
Eugene Field
2 September 1850–4 November 1895 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: children's poetry
bio 74% · poems 79%
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
11 November 1836–19 March 1907 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: significant
bio 69% · poems 85%
E. E. Cummings
14 October 1894–3 September 1962 (~68)
76% affinity
Shared: life, world, love
bio 68% · poems 86%
Cale Young Rice
7 December 1872–24 January 1943 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 67% · poems 86%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
76% affinity
bio 71% · poems 82%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
76% affinity
Shared: success
bio 68% · poems 86%