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 Raymond Garfield Dandridge
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
83% affinity
bio 81% · poems 86%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
81% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 87%
James D. Corrothers
2 July 1869–12 February 1917 (~48)
81% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 81%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
80% affinity
Shared: home
bio 79% · poems 82%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
80% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 76% · poems 85%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar, harlem renaissance
bio 78% · poems 82%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
80% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 76% · poems 84%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
79% affinity
bio 77% · poems 82%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 82%
Daniel Webster Davis
25 March 1862–11 October 1913 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 75% · poems 83%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
79% affinity
Shared: home
bio 76% · poems 82%
Leslie Pinckney Hill
14 May 1880–15 February 1960 (~80)
79% affinity
Shared: hill
bio 73% · poems 86%