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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with George Eliot

T. S. Eliot
26 September 1888–4 January 1965 (~77)
14 poems analysed
84% affinity
Shared: social, religious, world
bio 80% · poems 88%
Amy Levy
10 November 1861–10 September 1889 (~28)
3 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: novel, social, woman
bio 77% · poems 86%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
7 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: social, fiction
bio 75% · poems 85%
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
14 August 1802–15 October 1838 (~36)
3 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: social, woman, world
bio 75% · poems 85%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
100 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: woman, world
bio 73% · poems 87%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
8 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: social, identity
bio 73% · poems 86%
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
7 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: novel, fiction, world
bio 72% · poems 87%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
185 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: religious, world, nature
bio 72% · poems 86%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
22 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: social, woman
bio 72% · poems 86%
Alice Meynell
11 October 1847–27 November 1922 (~75)
3 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 74% · poems 83%
Elizabeth Stoddard
6 May 1823–1 August 1902 (~79)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: novel, fiction, woman
bio 74% · poems 84%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
19 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: novel, social
bio 71% · poems 87%
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