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 Edward Smyth Jones
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
86% affinity
Shared: african
bio 87% · poems 85%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
82% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 79% · poems 86%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
81% affinity
bio 78% · poems 85%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
81% affinity
bio 80% · poems 83%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
80% affinity
bio 77% · poems 85%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
80% affinity
bio 78% · poems 82%
Langston Hughes
1 February 1902–22 May 1967 (~65)
80% affinity
Shared: new york city, african
bio 74% · poems 86%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
79% affinity
Shared: african
bio 77% · poems 83%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 74% · poems 85%
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
79% affinity
Shared: african
bio 79%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 84%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
78% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 73% · poems 85%