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 Arthur Davison Ficke
Anne Knish
1916–1917 (~1)
80% affinity
Shared: spectra hoax, witter bynner
bio 80%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
77% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 74% · poems 80%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
77% affinity
Shared: harvard university, water
bio 75% · poems 80%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
77% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 74% · poems 80%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
77% affinity
Shared: desire
bio 73% · poems 81%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
77% affinity
bio 73% · poems 81%
Emanuel Morgan
1916–1917 (~1)
76% affinity
Shared: witter bynner, harvard university
bio 76%
Sam Walter Foss
19 June 1858–26 February 1911 (~53)
76% affinity
Shared: education
bio 76%
Alfred Kreymborg
10 December 1883–14 August 1966 (~83)
76% affinity
bio 73% · poems 79%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
76% affinity
Shared: harvard university, philosophical
bio 71% · poems 82%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
76% affinity
Shared: knowledge
bio 72% · poems 80%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
76% affinity
Shared: self
bio 70% · poems 83%