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 Stanley Braithwaite
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
82% affinity
bio 82% · poems 81%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 79% · poems 85%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
82% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 79% · poems 85%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
81% affinity
Shared: boston, racial
bio 79% · poems 83%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
81% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 85%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: racial, harlem
bio 76% · poems 86%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 75% · poems 86%
George Reginald Margetson
1877–c. 1952 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: boston, racial
bio 80%
Bliss Carman
15 April 1861–8 June 1929 (~68)
80% affinity
Shared: lyrics, life
bio 74% · poems 87%
William Cullen Bryant
3 November 1794–12 June 1878 (~84)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 75% · poems 85%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 83%
Walt Whitman
31 May 1819–26 March 1892 (~73)
79% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 75% · poems 84%