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 John Wesley Holloway
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
83% affinity
Shared: faith
bio 82% · poems 85%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
83% affinity
Shared: humor
bio 83%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
82% affinity
Shared: african
bio 80% · poems 85%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
82% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 88%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
82% affinity
bio 78% · poems 87%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 78% · poems 86%
Edward Smyth Jones
March 1881–28 September 1968 (~87)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 80% · poems 83%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
81% affinity
Shared: james weldon johnson, faith
bio 79% · poems 83%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
81% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 77% · poems 85%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: african
bio 78% · poems 84%
Leslie Pinckney Hill
14 May 1880–15 February 1960 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: african, life
bio 75% · poems 84%
John Van Alstyne Weaver
17 July 1893–14 June 1938 (~45)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 86%