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 Herman Melville
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: nathaniel hawthorne
bio 70% · poems 87%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 69% · poems 86%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 83%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
76% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 85%
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892 (~73)
76% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 86%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
76% affinity
Shared: new york city, stars
bio 68% · poems 85%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: fiction
bio 69% · poems 83%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 67% · poems 85%
Charles Whitehead
4 October 1804–5 July 1862 (~58)
75% affinity
Shared: fiction
bio 70% · poems 81%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
75% affinity
Shared: philosophical, world, nature
bio 65% · poems 86%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
74% affinity
Shared: world
bio 66% · poems 84%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
74% affinity
Shared: philosophical, world
bio 67% · poems 83%