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 Robert Frost
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
84% affinity
Shared: speech
bio 78% · poems 90%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
83% affinity
bio 76% · poems 91%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
81% affinity
Shared: rural, world, nature
bio 74% · poems 89%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
81% affinity
Shared: pulitzer prize, rural
bio 74% · poems 89%
Wallace Stevens
2 October 1879–2 August 1955 (~76)
80% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 74% · poems 89%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
80% affinity
Shared: world
bio 73% · poems 89%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
80% affinity
Shared: speech
bio 73% · poems 88%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
80% affinity
bio 72% · poems 89%
John Greenleaf Whittier
17 December 1807–7 September 1892 (~85)
80% affinity
Shared: new england, new hampshire
bio 77% · poems 83%
Edgar A. Guest
20 August 1881–5 August 1959 (~78)
80% affinity
Shared: home
bio 73% · poems 87%
Hartley Coleridge
19 September 1796–6 January 1849 (~53)
79% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 73% · poems 87%
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25 May 1803–27 April 1882 (~79)
79% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 72% · poems 89%