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.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Listen to William Edward Burghardt Du Bois's poems Compare with another poetPoets whose work rhymes most with William Edward Burghardt Du Bois
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
77% affinity
Shared: race
bio 77%
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
76% affinity
Shared: african
bio 76%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
75% affinity
Shared: the crisis, african
bio 75%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
75% affinity
Shared: african
bio 75%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
74% affinity
Shared: naacp
bio 74%
Langston Hughes
1 February 1902–22 May 1967 (~65)
74% affinity
Shared: america, african
bio 74%
James D. Corrothers
2 July 1869–12 February 1917 (~48)
73% affinity
Shared: race
bio 73%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
73% affinity
Shared: the crisis, african
bio 73%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
73% affinity
Shared: african
bio 73%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Daniel Webster Davis
25 March 1862–11 October 1913 (~51)
72% affinity
Shared: african
bio 72%
Edward Smyth Jones
March 1881–28 September 1968 (~87)
72% affinity
Shared: african
bio 72%