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 Walt Whitman
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
81% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 73% · poems 91%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
80% affinity
Shared: self, world, life
bio 73% · poems 90%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
79% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 75% · poems 84%
John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807–7 September 1892 (~85)
79% affinity
Shared: self, life
bio 76% · poems 83%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 78% · poems 81%
Carl Sandburg
6 January 1878–22 July 1967 (~89)
79% affinity
Shared: abraham lincoln, democratic, america
bio 71% · poems 89%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: america, life
bio 73% · poems 86%
Hart Crane
21 July 1899–27 April 1932 (~33)
79% affinity
Shared: brooklyn, america, york
bio 70% · poems 89%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
78% affinity
Shared: world, soul
bio 73% · poems 85%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: self, world, life
bio 70% · poems 89%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
78% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 69% · poems 89%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
78% affinity
Shared: island, self
bio 70% · poems 87%