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 Mark Van Doren
Henry Van Dyke
10 November 1852–10 April 1933 (~81)
83% affinity
bio 83%
Edwin Markham
23 April 1852–7 March 1940 (~88)
81% affinity
bio 79% · poems 83%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
81% affinity
Shared: pulitzer prize, rural
bio 74% · poems 89%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
80% affinity
bio 78% · poems 84%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: rural
bio 75% · poems 85%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 87%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
79% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 74% · poems 85%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 85%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 83%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 82%
William Rose Benét
2 February 1886–4 May 1950 (~64)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 83%
Bliss Carman
15 April 1861–8 June 1929 (~68)
79% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 71% · poems 87%