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 Edmund Clarence Stedman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: death
bio 74% · poems 88%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
80% affinity
Shared: hartford, death
bio 74% · poems 88%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
79% affinity
Shared: power
bio 75% · poems 83%
Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828 (~26)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
77% affinity
bio 74% · poems 82%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
77% affinity
Shared: love
bio 72% · poems 83%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
77% affinity
Shared: new york city, letters
bio 72% · poems 83%
Edmund Waller
3 March 1606–21 October 1687 (~81)
77% affinity
Shared: death, power
bio 71% · poems 84%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: beloved
bio 67% · poems 90%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
77% affinity
Shared: love
bio 69% · poems 86%
Barry Cornwall
21 November 1787–5 October 1874 (~87)
77% affinity
bio 68% · poems 88%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
bio 67% · poems 89%