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 James Oppenheim
Isaac Rosenberg
25 November 1890–1 April 1918 (~28)
81% affinity
Shared: life, beauty
bio 78% · poems 85%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 87%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
79% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 76% · poems 83%
Alfred Kreymborg
10 December 1883–14 August 1966 (~83)
79% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 76% · poems 83%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: social, women
bio 75% · poems 83%
George O'Neil
13 September 1896–23 May 1940 (~44)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 85%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
78% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 74% · poems 83%
Carl Sandburg
6 January 1878–22 July 1967 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 86%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
78% affinity
Shared: wanted
bio 74% · poems 83%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 71% · poems 86%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 86%