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 James Nack
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
81% affinity
bio 78% · poems 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 88%
Charles Webbe
c. 1650–c. 1680 (~30)
80% affinity
Shared: history
bio 73% · poems 88%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: world, beloved
bio 72% · poems 88%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 87%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 83%
Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828 (~26)
78% affinity
Shared: world, beloved
bio 71% · poems 87%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
bio 70% · poems 86%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 84%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 87%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 85%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
77% affinity
Shared: world, love
bio 68% · poems 87%