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 John Van Alstyne Weaver
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 78% · poems 84%
George O'Neil
13 September 1896–23 May 1940 (~44)
80% affinity
Shared: hollywood
bio 76% · poems 85%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
80% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 74% · poems 88%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
80% affinity
bio 76% · poems 85%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
bio 72% · poems 90%
E. E. Cummings
14 October 1894–3 September 1962 (~68)
80% affinity
Shared: harvard university, life
bio 73% · poems 88%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: harvard university, youth
bio 71% · poems 90%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
80% affinity
bio 77% · poems 83%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 87%
Samuel Hoffenstein
8 October 1890–6 October 1947 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: jazz age, hollywood
bio 74% · poems 86%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 86%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: ordinary
bio 74% · poems 86%