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 Strickland Gillilan
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
79% affinity
Shared: newspaper
bio 75% · poems 83%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
78% affinity
bio 77% · poems 78%
Eugene Field
2 September 1850–4 November 1895 (~45)
76% affinity
Shared: newspaper, humor
bio 70% · poems 83%
Herbert Gorman
January 1893–28 October 1954 (~61)
75% affinity
bio 71% · poems 79%
Howard Phelps Putnam
1894–3 July 1948 (~54)
75% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 77%
W.M. Herschell
17 November 1873–2 December 1939 (~66)
75% affinity
Shared: newspaper
bio 75%
Ben King
17 March 1857–8 April 1894 (~37)
74% affinity
Shared: humorist
bio 76% · poems 73%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 81%
Thomas Hood
23 May 1799–3 May 1845 (~46)
74% affinity
bio 71% · poems 79%
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
29 August 1809–7 October 1894 (~85)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67% · poems 83%
Sam Walter Foss
19 June 1858–26 February 1911 (~53)
74% affinity
bio 74%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
74% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 80%