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 Richard Henry Dana
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
bio 78%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Philip Freneau
2 January 1752–18 December 1832 (~80)
75% affinity
Shared: helped
bio 75%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
74% affinity
Shared: boston
bio 74%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
74% affinity
bio 74%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Francis Hastings Doyle
21 August 1810–8 June 1888 (~78)
74% affinity
bio 74%
William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878 (~84)
73% affinity
Shared: romanticism
bio 73%
Ebenezer Jones
20 January 1820–14 September 1860 (~40)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
73% affinity
Shared: harvard college, boston
bio 73%
John Vance Cheney
29 December 1848–1 May 1922 (~74)
73% affinity
bio 73%