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 Maurice Thompson
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 85%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
75% affinity
Shared: success
bio 69% · poems 84%
James Thomson
c. 11 September 1700–27 August 1748 (~48)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 82%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
75% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 68% · poems 83%
William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878 (~84)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 84%
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
11 November 1836–19 March 1907 (~71)
75% affinity
bio 71% · poems 80%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 81%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 83%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 80%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
75% affinity
Shared: nature
bio 69% · poems 81%
Edward Hovell-Thurlow
10 June 1781–4 June 1829 (~48)
75% affinity
Shared: nature, world
bio 71% · poems 79%
Herbert Gorman
January 1893–28 October 1954 (~61)
75% affinity
bio 68% · poems 82%