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 Rose Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét
22 July 1898–13 March 1943 (~45)
86% affinity
Shared: world
bio 89% · poems 82%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
80% affinity
Shared: brooklyn
bio 77% · poems 84%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 79% · poems 79%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 75% · poems 83%
Robert Frost
26 March 1874–29 January 1963 (~89)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 72% · poems 85%
William Carlos Williams
17 September 1883–4 March 1963 (~80)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 81%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 85%
Louis Untermeyer
1 October 1885–18 December 1977 (~92)
78% affinity
bio 77% · poems 79%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
78% affinity
Shared: stephen vincent benét, gave
bio 75% · poems 81%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 73% · poems 83%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 85%
Alfred Lord Tennyson
6 August 1809–6 October 1892 (~83)
77% affinity
Shared: gave
bio 71% · poems 85%