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 Stephen Collins Foster
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
69% affinity
bio 69%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Thomas Godfrey
4 December 1736–3 August 1763 (~27)
68% affinity
Shared: america
bio 68%
Henry Carey
c. 26 August 1687–5 October 1743 (~56)
67% affinity
Shared: songs, music, popular
bio 67%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
67% affinity
Shared: america
bio 67%
Francis Pilkington
c. 1565–1638 (~73)
66% affinity
Shared: music
bio 66%
Philip Freneau
2 January 1752–18 December 1832 (~80)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828 (~26)
65% affinity
bio 65%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
65% affinity
Shared: music
bio 65%
Sidney Lanier
3 February 1842–7 September 1881 (~39)
65% affinity
Shared: music
bio 65%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
65% affinity
bio 65%
Thomas Campion
12 February 1567–1 March 1620 (~53)
64% affinity
Shared: songs, music
bio 64%