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 Theodore Henry Shackelford
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
78% affinity
Shared: james weldon johnson
bio 77% · poems 79%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
77% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 77%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 82%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 76% · poems 78%
Edward Smyth Jones
March 1881–28 September 1968 (~87)
77% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 73% · poems 81%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
77% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 75% · poems 79%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
76% affinity
Shared: new negro movement, james weldon johnson
bio 74% · poems 79%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
76% affinity
bio 75% · poems 78%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
76% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 75% · poems 77%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
76% affinity
bio 73% · poems 80%
Robert Nathaniel Dett
11 October 1882–2 October 1943 (~61)
76% affinity
Shared: african
bio 73% · poems 79%
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
76% affinity
Shared: african
bio 76%