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 Edgar Allan Poe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 69% · poems 91%
Edward Coote Pinkney
1 October 1802–11 April 1828 (~26)
79% affinity
Shared: baltimore, romantic poetry
bio 75% · poems 84%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 68% · poems 91%
Howard Phillips Lovecraft
20 August 1890–15 March 1937 (~47)
78% affinity
Shared: horror
bio 72% · poems 87%
Edgar Lee Masters
23 August 1868–5 March 1950 (~82)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 69% · poems 89%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
78% affinity
bio 68% · poems 90%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
78% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 68% · poems 90%
Madison Julius Cawein
23 March 1865–8 December 1914 (~49)
78% affinity
bio 68% · poems 89%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
77% affinity
Shared: loss
bio 67% · poems 89%
Charles Baudelaire
9 April 1821–31 August 1867 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: financial, world, beauty
bio 70% · poems 86%
Edwin Arlington Robinson
22 December 1869–6 April 1935 (~66)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 88%
Arthur Symons
28 February 1865–22 January 1945 (~80)
77% affinity
bio 66% · poems 89%