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 William Hughes Mearns
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 72% · poems 81%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 82%
E. E. Cummings
14 October 1894–3 September 1962 (~68)
76% affinity
Shared: harvard university, decades
bio 76%
Edward Lear
12 May 1812–29 January 1888 (~76)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 84%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 82%
John Masefield
1 June 1878–12 May 1967 (~89)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 81%
Walter de la Mare
25 April 1873–22 June 1956 (~83)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 80%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 78%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
75% affinity
bio 73% · poems 78%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 83%
George Reginald Margetson
1877–c. 1952 (~75)
75% affinity
bio 75%
James Clarence Mangan
1 May 1803–20 June 1849 (~46)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 83%