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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with Robinson Jeffers

Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
7 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: nature, world
bio 71% · poems 82%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
23 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: power, nature
bio 67% · poems 84%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
4 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: nature, world
bio 66% · poems 84%
Joaquin Miller
8 September 1837–17 February 1913 (~76)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: california
bio 69% · poems 79%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
24 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: world, death
bio 66% · poems 82%
Gerard Manley Hopkins
28 July 1844–8 June 1889 (~45)
16 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: music, world
bio 67% · poems 81%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
2 poems analysed
73% affinity
bio 67% · poems 80%
Edwin Arlington Robinson
22 December 1869–6 April 1935 (~66)
10 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: power, death
bio 68% · poems 79%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
3 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: california, power
bio 68% · poems 79%
Hart Crane
21 July 1899–27 April 1932 (~33)
40 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: world
bio 65% · poems 83%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
4 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: violence
bio 66% · poems 80%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
19 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: nature, world
bio 65% · poems 81%
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