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 Hervey Allen
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: america
bio 75% · poems 81%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: america
bio 75% · poems 81%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
76% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 81%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 84%
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 83%
Herbert Gorman
January 1893–28 October 1954 (~61)
76% affinity
bio 72% · poems 81%
George O'Neil
13 September 1896–23 May 1940 (~44)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 85%
Edwin Arlington Robinson
22 December 1869–6 April 1935 (~66)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 84%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 79%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
75% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 66% · poems 86%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 82%
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 67% · poems 84%