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 Bayard Taylor
Edward Taylor
c. 1642–24 June 1729 (~87)
83% affinity
bio 83%
Sir Henry Taylor
18 October 1800–27 March 1886 (~86)
83% affinity
bio 82% · poems 83%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 87%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 86%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
78% affinity
bio 73% · poems 83%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 84%
Bliss Carman
15 April 1861–8 June 1929 (~68)
77% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 71% · poems 84%
Thomas Campbell
27 July 1777–15 June 1844 (~67)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: music
bio 70% · poems 85%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 86%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 81%