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 Sara Teasdale
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
85% affinity
Shared: women
bio 83% · poems 89%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
85% affinity
Shared: desire, women
bio 79% · poems 92%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
83% affinity
Shared: desire, love
bio 76% · poems 93%
Lizette Woodworth Reese
9 January 1856–17 December 1935 (~79)
83% affinity
Shared: women
bio 78% · poems 89%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
83% affinity
Shared: marriage, women
bio 77% · poems 91%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
83% affinity
Shared: world
bio 76% · poems 91%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
83% affinity
Shared: st. louis, women
bio 78% · poems 88%
Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
14 September 1883–22 April 1922 (~39)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 78% · poems 88%
Genevieve Taggard
28 November 1894–8 November 1948 (~54)
82% affinity
Shared: woman, life
bio 77% · poems 89%
Grace Fallow Norton
29 October 1876–1926 (~50)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 77% · poems 88%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
82% affinity
Shared: romantic
bio 76% · poems 89%
Alice Meynell
11 October 1847–27 November 1922 (~75)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 76% · poems 89%