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 John McCrae
Charles Wolfe
14 December 1791–21 February 1823 (~32)
76% affinity
bio 76%
Laurence Binyon
10 August 1869–10 March 1943 (~74)
75% affinity
Shared: dead
bio 75%
Wilfred Owen
18 March 1893–4 November 1918 (~25)
75% affinity
Shared: officer, military
bio 75%
Francis Ledwidge
19 August 1887–31 July 1917 (~30)
74% affinity
Shared: military
bio 74%
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
9 June 1922–11 December 1941 (~19)
74% affinity
Shared: military
bio 74%
Charles Sorley
19 May 1895–13 October 1915 (~20)
74% affinity
Shared: dead
bio 74%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Rupert Brooke
3 August 1887–23 April 1915 (~28)
73% affinity
bio 73%
Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
1730–13 February 1809 (~79)
73% affinity
Shared: military
bio 73%
Isaac Rosenberg
25 November 1890–1 April 1918 (~28)
73% affinity
Shared: dead
bio 73%
Joyce Kilmer
6 December 1886–30 July 1918 (~32)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
71% affinity
bio 71%