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 John Townsend Trowbridge
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
74% affinity
Shared: fiction
bio 69% · poems 80%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 65% · poems 84%
Maurice Thompson
9 September 1844–15 February 1901 (~57)
73% affinity
bio 68% · poems 79%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
73% affinity
bio 66% · poems 81%
Bret Harte
25 August 1836–5 May 1902 (~66)
72% affinity
Shared: fiction
bio 67% · poems 79%
Bayard Taylor
11 January 1825–19 December 1878 (~53)
72% affinity
bio 69% · poems 76%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63% · poems 81%
Stephen Crane
1 November 1871–5 June 1900 (~29)
71% affinity
Shared: fiction
bio 65% · poems 80%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
71% affinity
Shared: success
bio 63% · poems 81%
Edwin Arlington Robinson
22 December 1869–6 April 1935 (~66)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63% · poems 82%
Charles Kingsley
12 June 1819–23 January 1875 (~56)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66% · poems 77%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
71% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63% · poems 80%