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 John Greenleaf Whittier
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
83% affinity
bio 80% · poems 88%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 76% · poems 86%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
80% affinity
Shared: new hampshire, new england
bio 77% · poems 83%
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892 (~73)
79% affinity
Shared: life, self
bio 76% · poems 83%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 85%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
78% affinity
Shared: concord
bio 75% · poems 82%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 84%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
78% affinity
bio 77% · poems 79%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
77% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 73% · poems 82%
William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878 (~84)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 82%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 83%
George Wither
11 June 1588–2 May 1667 (~79)
77% affinity
bio 77%