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 Max Ehrmann
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Henry Van Dyke
10 November 1852–10 April 1933 (~81)
72% affinity
bio 72%
W.M. Herschell
17 November 1873–2 December 1939 (~66)
71% affinity
Shared: indiana
bio 71%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
71% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 71%
Ernst Stadler
11 August 1883–30 October 1914 (~31)
71% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 71%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Sam Walter Foss
19 June 1858–26 February 1911 (~53)
70% affinity
bio 70%
George Edward Woodberry
12 May 1855–2 January 1930 (~75)
69% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 69%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
69% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 69%