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 Vance Cheney
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
77% affinity
bio 77%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
77% affinity
bio 77%
George Edward Woodberry
12 May 1855–2 January 1930 (~75)
77% affinity
bio 77%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: america
bio 76%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
75% affinity
bio 75%
Henry Van Dyke
10 November 1852–10 April 1933 (~81)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
74% affinity
bio 74%
William Rose Benét
2 February 1886–4 May 1950 (~64)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Richard Henry Dana
15 November 1787–2 February 1879 (~92)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
73% affinity
Shared: america
bio 73%