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 William Carlos Williams
Charles Williams
20 September 1886–15 May 1945 (~59)
82% affinity
Shared: speech
bio 79% · poems 85%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
80% affinity
Shared: speech
bio 79% · poems 82%
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
79% affinity
Shared: speech
bio 76% · poems 83%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 83%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 84%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: ezra pound
bio 76% · poems 81%
William Watson
2 August 1858–11 August 1935 (~77)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 80%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 83%
William Rose Benét
2 February 1886–4 May 1950 (~64)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 81%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
78% affinity
Shared: ordinary, life
bio 74% · poems 83%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: farm
bio 74% · poems 81%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
77% affinity
bio 77% · poems 78%