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 Charles Frederick White
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
83% affinity
Shared: tennessee
bio 83%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
83% affinity
Shared: soldier
bio 85% · poems 81%
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
82% affinity
bio 79% · poems 85%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
82% affinity
bio 79% · poems 85%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
82% affinity
Shared: life
bio 83% · poems 79%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
81% affinity
bio 81%
Leslie Pinckney Hill
14 May 1880–15 February 1960 (~80)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 84%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
80% affinity
Shared: home
bio 79% · poems 82%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
80% affinity
bio 78% · poems 83%
James D. Corrothers
2 July 1869–12 February 1917 (~48)
80% affinity
Shared: race
bio 80%
Edward Smyth Jones
March 1881–28 September 1968 (~87)
80% affinity
bio 78% · poems 82%
George Reginald Margetson
1877–c. 1952 (~75)
80% affinity
bio 80%