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 Eugene Field
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
79% affinity
Shared: success, newspaper
bio 75% · poems 84%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: culture, newspaper
bio 73% · poems 86%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 82%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 83%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
76% affinity
Shared: reputation
bio 72% · poems 80%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
76% affinity
bio 69% · poems 84%
Carl Sandburg
6 January 1878–22 July 1967 (~89)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
76% affinity
Shared: childhood
bio 68% · poems 86%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 82%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
76% affinity
Shared: accessible
bio 72% · poems 80%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
76% affinity
bio 70% · poems 82%