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 George Edward Woodberry

Henry Augustin Beers
2 July 1847–7 September 1926 (~79)
1 poem analysed
78% affinity
Shared: ralph waldo emerson
bio 78%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
2 poems analysed
77% affinity
bio 77%
John Vance Cheney
29 December 1848–1 May 1922 (~74)
1 poem analysed
77% affinity
bio 77%
James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891 (~72)
3 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: harvard college, atlantic monthly
bio 77%
Henry Van Dyke
10 November 1852–10 April 1933 (~81)
1 poem analysed
77% affinity
bio 77%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
47 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: harvard college, harvard, philosophical
bio 76%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
2 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76%
Henry Newbolt
6 June 1862–19 April 1938 (~76)
1 poem analysed
76% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
3 poems analysed
76% affinity
bio 76%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
2 poems analysed
76% affinity
bio 76%
Sam Walter Foss
19 June 1858–26 February 1911 (~53)
1 poem analysed
76% affinity
bio 76%
Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828 (~26)
2 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: increasingly
bio 76%
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