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 Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Richard Aldington
8 July 1892–27 July 1962 (~70)
82% affinity
bio 81% · poems 82%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
81% affinity
Shared: atlantic monthly
bio 80% · poems 83%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 72% · poems 87%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: civil war
bio 76% · poems 82%
Mary Reynolds Aldis
c. 1872–20 June 1949 (~77)
78% affinity
bio 76% · poems 80%
Edward James Mortimer Collins
29 June 1827–28 July 1876 (~49)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 84%
John Drinkwater
1 June 1882–25 March 1937 (~55)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 85%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 83%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
76% affinity
Shared: social, nature, life
bio 70% · poems 85%
James Whitcomb Riley
7 October 1849–22 July 1916 (~67)
76% affinity
Shared: significant
bio 69% · poems 85%
Nathaniel Parker Willis
20 January 1806–20 January 1867 (~61)
76% affinity
bio 76%