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 George O'Neil
John Boyle O'Reilly
28 June 1844–10 August 1890 (~46)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 74% · poems 89%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
80% affinity
Shared: hollywood
bio 76% · poems 85%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 72% · poems 88%
Herbert Gorman
January 1893–28 October 1954 (~61)
79% affinity
Shared: greenwich village
bio 73% · poems 86%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
78% affinity
bio 72% · poems 86%
James Oppenheim
24 May 1882–4 August 1932 (~50)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 85%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
78% affinity
Shared: greenwich village, life
bio 70% · poems 87%
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 83%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 71% · poems 87%
Robert Nichols
6 September 1893–17 December 1944 (~51)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 86%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
78% affinity
Shared: rose, home
bio 73% · poems 84%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 84%