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 Vachel Lindsay
Archibald MacLeish
7 May 1892–20 April 1982 (~90)
78% affinity
bio 73% · poems 84%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 84%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 84%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
77% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 70% · poems 86%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 83%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
77% affinity
bio 75% · poems 79%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 84%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
76% affinity
Shared: african, divine, heaven
bio 72% · poems 82%
Carl Sandburg
6 January 1878–22 July 1967 (~89)
76% affinity
Shared: harriet monroe, social
bio 69% · poems 85%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
76% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 71% · poems 83%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
76% affinity
bio 73% · poems 80%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
76% affinity
bio 73% · poems 80%