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 Lew R. Sarett
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
75% affinity
bio 71% · poems 80%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
74% affinity
Shared: life
bio 66% · poems 85%
George O'Neil
13 September 1896–23 May 1940 (~44)
74% affinity
Shared: life
bio 66% · poems 85%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
74% affinity
Shared: speech, life
bio 69% · poems 80%
William Soutar
28 April 1898–15 October 1943 (~45)
74% affinity
Shared: life, blood
bio 66% · poems 84%
Vachel Lindsay
10 November 1879–5 December 1931 (~52)
74% affinity
bio 65% · poems 85%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
73% affinity
bio 66% · poems 82%
Carl Sandburg
6 January 1878–22 July 1967 (~89)
73% affinity
Shared: chicago, illinois, america
bio 65% · poems 84%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
73% affinity
Shared: life
bio 66% · poems 83%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
73% affinity
Shared: illinois
bio 69% · poems 79%
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892 (~73)
73% affinity
Shared: america, life
bio 65% · poems 83%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
73% affinity
bio 65% · poems 82%