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 Herbert Gorman
J.G. Holland
24 July 1819–12 October 1881 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: love, self
bio 75% · poems 84%
George O'Neil
13 September 1896–23 May 1940 (~44)
79% affinity
Shared: greenwich village
bio 73% · poems 86%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 84%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
79% affinity
Shared: new york city, self
bio 73% · poems 85%
Edmund William Gosse
21 September 1849–16 May 1928 (~79)
78% affinity
Shared: self
bio 73% · poems 85%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 71% · poems 86%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
Shared: grief
bio 70% · poems 87%
Gerald Gould
9 April 1885–2 November 1936 (~51)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 73% · poems 84%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
77% affinity
bio 75% · poems 80%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: grief, love
bio 69% · poems 87%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
77% affinity
Shared: love, self
bio 73% · poems 83%
Nixon Waterman
12 November 1859–1 September 1944 (~85)
77% affinity
Shared: love
bio 70% · poems 86%