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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with William H. A. Moore

T. Sturge Moore
4 March 1870–18 July 1944 (~74)
1 poem analysed
83% affinity
bio 83%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
3 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, great migration
bio 81%
Thomas Moore
28 May 1779–25 February 1852 (~73)
31 poems analysed
80% affinity
bio 80%
George Marion McClellan
29 September 1860–17 May 1934 (~74)
4 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: james weldon johnson, harlem renaissance, great migration
bio 79%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
2 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: new york city, the crisis
bio 79%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
2 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 79%
William Vaughn Moody
8 July 1869–17 October 1910 (~41)
1 poem analysed
78% affinity
Shared: chicago
bio 78%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
1 poem analysed
78% affinity
bio 78%
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
1 poem analysed
78% affinity
Shared: the crisis, african
bio 78%
James D. Corrothers
2 July 1869–12 February 1917 (~48)
1 poem analysed
78% affinity
Shared: racial, chicago
bio 78%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 78%
Marianne Moore
15 November 1887–5 February 1972 (~85)
2 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 77%
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