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 Orrick Johns
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 75% · poems 83%
John Boyle O'Reilly
28 June 1844–10 August 1890 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 86%
Arthur Hugh Clough
1 January 1819–13 November 1861 (~42)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 84%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
77% affinity
bio 70% · poems 85%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 83%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
76% affinity
Shared: speech
bio 69% · poems 86%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 82%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 82%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
76% affinity
bio 70% · poems 83%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
76% affinity
bio 69% · poems 84%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
76% affinity
bio 72% · poems 81%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
76% affinity
bio 73% · poems 79%