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 Realf
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 88%
John Boyle O'Reilly
28 June 1844–10 August 1890 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 68% · poems 89%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 85%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 86%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
76% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 69% · poems 85%
Cale Young Rice
7 December 1872–24 January 1943 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 69% · poems 85%
John Crowe Ransom
30 April 1888–3 July 1974 (~86)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 83%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 67% · poems 86%
John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807–7 September 1892 (~85)
76% affinity
Shared: slavery, civil
bio 71% · poems 82%
Richard Aldington
8 July 1892–27 July 1962 (~70)
76% affinity
bio 71% · poems 81%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
75% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 67% · poems 85%
Edwin Arlington Robinson
22 December 1869–6 April 1935 (~66)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66% · poems 86%