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 Crane
Hart Crane
21 July 1899–27 April 1932 (~33)
84% affinity
bio 79% · poems 90%
Ernest Hemingway
21 July 1899–2 July 1961 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: novel, fiction
bio 72% · poems 85%
Cale Young Rice
7 December 1872–24 January 1943 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 85%
Isaac Rosenberg
25 November 1890–1 April 1918 (~28)
76% affinity
Shared: death, soldiers
bio 68% · poems 85%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
75% affinity
Shared: death, violence
bio 69% · poems 83%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 68% · poems 84%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67% · poems 85%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67% · poems 85%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
75% affinity
Shared: courage
bio 68% · poems 84%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
75% affinity
Shared: death
bio 68% · poems 84%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
75% affinity
Shared: social, fiction
bio 69% · poems 81%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 68% · poems 83%