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 Sidney Lanier
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
74% affinity
Shared: music
bio 74%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
74% affinity
bio 74%
George Marion McClellan
29 September 1860–17 May 1934 (~74)
73% affinity
bio 73%
John Gould Fletcher
3 January 1886–20 May 1950 (~64)
73% affinity
Shared: marked
bio 73%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
73% affinity
bio 73%
George Darley
December 1795–23 November 1846 (~51)
73% affinity
bio 73%
David Gray
29 January 1838–3 December 1861 (~23)
72% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis
bio 72%
William H. A. Moore
c. 1885–1960 (~75)
72% affinity
bio 72%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Henry Timrod
8 December 1828–7 October 1867 (~39)
72% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis
bio 72%
Vachel Lindsay
10 November 1879–5 December 1931 (~52)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828 (~26)
72% affinity
bio 72%