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 Trumbull Stickney
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
82% affinity
Shared: memory, world
bio 78% · poems 87%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
82% affinity
Shared: knowledge, world
bio 78% · poems 87%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
81% affinity
bio 80% · poems 82%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 76% · poems 86%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 85%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
80% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 74% · poems 87%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 72% · poems 89%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 88%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 74% · poems 86%
Stephen Phillips
28 July 1864–9 December 1915 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 73% · poems 87%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 83%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 86%