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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Madison Julius Cawein

Cale Young Rice
7 December 1872–24 January 1943 (~71)
8 poems analysed
82% affinity
Shared: louisville, kentucky
bio 77% · poems 88%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
20 poems analysed
82% affinity
Shared: pre-raphaelite movement, imaginative
bio 76% · poems 89%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
22 poems analysed
82% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 78% · poems 86%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
4 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: color, world
bio 75% · poems 88%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
24 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: landscape, world
bio 74% · poems 89%
William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878 (~84)
11 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 74% · poems 87%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
26 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: romantic, world
bio 74% · poems 87%
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
20 August 1890–15 March 1937 (~47)
2 poems analysed
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
4 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: landscape, world
bio 74% · poems 86%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
79 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: imaginative, supernatural
bio 72% · poems 88%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
18 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: romantic, world
bio 72% · poems 88%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
22 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: world, death
bio 71% · poems 88%
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