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 Stephen Vincent Benét
William Rose Benét
2 February 1886–4 May 1950 (~64)
86% affinity
bio 89% · poems 82%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: america
bio 77% · poems 80%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
79% affinity
Shared: military, world
bio 76% · poems 82%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
78% affinity
Shared: spanish-american war
bio 78% · poems 78%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
78% affinity
bio 78% · poems 78%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 83%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
George O'Neil
13 September 1896–23 May 1940 (~44)
78% affinity
bio 74% · poems 83%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
78% affinity
Shared: yale university, yale
bio 75% · poems 81%
Hervey Allen
8 December 1889–28 December 1949 (~60)
78% affinity
Shared: america
bio 75% · poems 81%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 84%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: pulitzer prize
bio 74% · poems 82%