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 William Ellery Leonard
Leonard Bacon
26 May 1887–1 January 1954 (~67)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 86%
Philip Arthur Larkin
9 August 1922–2 December 1985 (~63)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 85%
Walter Savage Landor
30 January 1775–17 September 1864 (~89)
77% affinity
Shared: romanticism, social
bio 69% · poems 86%
Thomas Stanley
3 September 1625–12 April 1678 (~53)
77% affinity
Shared: self, beloved
bio 69% · poems 86%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 84%
Philip Bourke Marston
13 August 1850–13 February 1887 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: beloved, life
bio 67% · poems 88%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: social, beloved
bio 69% · poems 84%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 81%
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
76% affinity
bio 72% · poems 81%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
76% affinity
Shared: truth
bio 68% · poems 86%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
76% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 69% · poems 84%