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 Burroughs
Henry David Thoreau
12 July 1817–6 May 1862 (~45)
75% affinity
Shared: ralph waldo emerson
bio 75%
George Edward Woodberry
12 May 1855–2 January 1930 (~75)
73% affinity
Shared: ralph waldo emerson, philosophical
bio 73%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
72% affinity
bio 72%
William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878 (~84)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
71% affinity
Shared: farm
bio 71%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
70% affinity
Shared: birds, philosophical
bio 70%
Orrick Johns
2 June 1887–8 July 1946 (~59)
70% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 70%
William Barnes
22 February 1801–7 October 1886 (~85)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Ralph Hodgson
9 September 1871–3 November 1962 (~91)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
70% affinity
Shared: essays
bio 70%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
70% affinity
bio 70%