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 Bret Harte
Joaquin Miller
8 September 1837–17 February 1913 (~76)
78% affinity
Shared: california
bio 76% · poems 81%
Ernest Hemingway
21 July 1899–2 July 1961 (~62)
77% affinity
Shared: fiction
bio 71% · poems 84%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 81%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
76% affinity
bio 70% · poems 84%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
76% affinity
bio 70% · poems 84%
Sadakichi Hartmann
8 November 1867–22 November 1944 (~77)
76% affinity
bio 76% · poems 76%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
75% affinity
bio 67% · poems 85%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
75% affinity
bio 68% · poems 84%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
75% affinity
Shared: california, social
bio 70% · poems 81%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
75% affinity
Shared: social, fiction
bio 67% · poems 84%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
75% affinity
Shared: popular
bio 69% · poems 82%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 80%