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 Ernest Hemingway
William Ernest Henley
23 August 1849–11 July 1903 (~54)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 70% · poems 89%
Stephen Crane
1 November 1871–5 June 1900 (~29)
78% affinity
Shared: novel, fiction, violence
bio 72% · poems 85%
Bret Harte
25 August 1836–5 May 1902 (~66)
77% affinity
Shared: fiction
bio 71% · poems 84%
Alan Seeger
22 June 1888–4 July 1916 (~28)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 68% · poems 87%
William Butler Yeats
13 June 1865–28 January 1939 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: world, history
bio 68% · poems 86%
T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
75% affinity
Shared: world, memory, religious
bio 65% · poems 87%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 65% · poems 87%
Ford Madox Hueffer
17 December 1873–26 June 1939 (~66)
75% affinity
Shared: novel, fiction
bio 68% · poems 83%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
75% affinity
Shared: world, memory
bio 65% · poems 86%
Maxwell Bodenheim
26 May 1892–6 February 1954 (~62)
75% affinity
bio 67% · poems 84%
Humbert Wolfe
5 January 1885–5 January 1940 (~55)
75% affinity
Shared: paris
bio 67% · poems 84%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 64% · poems 88%