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 Jean Toomer
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
75% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, racial
bio 75%
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.
12 February 1861–14 March 1949 (~88)
67% affinity
Shared: racial, culture
bio 67%
Herman Melville
1 August 1819–28 September 1891 (~72)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
66% affinity
Shared: folk
bio 66%
Langston Hughes
1 February 1902–22 May 1967 (~65)
66% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, racial
bio 66%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Claude McKay
15 September 1890–22 May 1948 (~58)
66% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, racial
bio 66%
William H. A. Moore
c. 1885–1960 (~75)
66% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, racial
bio 66%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
65% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 65%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
65% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 65%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
65% affinity
bio 65%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
65% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 65%