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.

Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.

12 February 1861–14 March 1949 (~88)
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Poets whose work rhymes most with Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.

Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
2 September 1895–3 February 1919 (~24)
2 poems analysed
89% affinity
Shared: louisville
bio 89%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
4 poems analysed
76% affinity
bio 76%
James D. Corrothers
2 July 1869–12 February 1917 (~48)
1 poem analysed
76% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 76%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
3 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: culture
bio 76%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
3 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: african
bio 75%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: african
bio 74%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
1 poem analysed
74% affinity
Shared: booker t. washington
bio 74%
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
1 poem analysed
74% affinity
Shared: jim crow, african
bio 74%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
2 poems analysed
73% affinity
bio 73%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
2 poems analysed
72% affinity
Shared: education
bio 72%
George Reginald Margetson
1877–c. 1952 (~75)
1 poem analysed
72% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 72%
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
2 poems analysed
72% affinity
bio 72%
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