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 Joshua Henry Jones
Edward Smyth Jones
March 1881–28 September 1968 (~87)
86% affinity
bio 87% · poems 85%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
85% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 83% · poems 87%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
84% affinity
Shared: life
bio 81% · poems 88%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
82% affinity
bio 80% · poems 85%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
82% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 81% · poems 82%
Ebenezer Jones
20 January 1820–14 September 1860 (~40)
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 81%
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
81% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 81%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
81% affinity
Shared: boston, racial
bio 79% · poems 83%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 79% · poems 82%
Georgia Douglas Johnson
10 September 1880–15 May 1966 (~86)
80% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 78% · poems 83%
Langston Hughes
1 February 1902–22 May 1967 (~65)
80% affinity
Shared: racial, social
bio 76% · poems 84%
James D. Corrothers
2 July 1869–12 February 1917 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 79%