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 John Gould Fletcher

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
69 poems analysed
82% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 77% · poems 89%
James Elroy Flecker
5 November 1884–3 January 1915 (~31)
2 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: marked
bio 74% · poems 88%
F. S. Flint
19 December 1885–28 February 1960 (~75)
4 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: imagist movement
bio 76% · poems 86%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
8 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 73% · poems 85%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
10 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
Phineas Fletcher
8 April 1582–13 December 1650 (~68)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 77% · poems 80%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
23 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 70% · poems 88%
Giles Fletcher
c. 1586–1623 (~37)
1 poem analysed
78% affinity
bio 78%
John Crowe Ransom
30 April 1888–3 July 1974 (~86)
4 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
John Freeman
29 January 1880–23 September 1929 (~49)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 76% · poems 80%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
20 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 70% · poems 87%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
27 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: fantasy
bio 70% · poems 88%
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