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 Edward Rowland Sill
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
81% affinity
bio 76% · poems 87%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
80% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 76% · poems 85%
J. C. Squire
2 April 1884–20 December 1958 (~74)
80% affinity
bio 80%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 87%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
80% affinity
bio 76% · poems 85%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 86%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 86%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 76% · poems 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 84%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 84%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 84%