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 Edwin Markham
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
82% affinity
Shared: self
bio 78% · poems 86%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
81% affinity
bio 75% · poems 89%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 89%
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
81% affinity
bio 77% · poems 86%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
81% affinity
bio 79% · poems 83%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 87%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 85%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Gerald Massey
29 May 1828–29 October 1907 (~79)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 87%
Carl Sandburg
6 January 1878–22 July 1967 (~89)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 87%
Edmund Clarence Stedman
8 October 1833–18 January 1908 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: power
bio 75% · poems 83%
Alfred Kreymborg
10 December 1883–14 August 1966 (~83)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 83%