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 Witter Bynner
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
81% affinity
bio 75% · poems 88%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 89%
William Rose Benét
2 February 1886–4 May 1950 (~64)
80% affinity
Shared: brooklyn
bio 77% · poems 84%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 86%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
80% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 74% · poems 88%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
79% affinity
Shared: landscape, nature
bio 74% · poems 86%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 89%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 88%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: nature, world
bio 74% · poems 85%
Sadakichi Hartmann
8 November 1867–22 November 1944 (~77)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 84%
Clifford Bax
13 July 1886–18 November 1962 (~76)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 86%
William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878 (~84)
79% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 71% · poems 88%