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 Sterling

Joaquin Miller
8 September 1837–17 February 1913 (~76)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: california
bio 78%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
4 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 77%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
23 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: helped
bio 75%
George Edward Woodberry
12 May 1855–2 January 1930 (~75)
1 poem analysed
75% affinity
bio 75%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
20 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
4 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: imaginative, supernatural
bio 74%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
bio 74%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: california
bio 74%
Ezra Pound
30 October 1885–1 November 1972 (~87)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: helped
bio 74%
Bret Harte
25 August 1836–5 May 1902 (~66)
3 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: california, social
bio 74%
Lionel Johnson
15 March 1867–4 October 1902 (~35)
1 poem analysed
74% affinity
bio 74%
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