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 Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
85% affinity
Shared: women
bio 79% · poems 91%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
84% affinity
Shared: life, self
bio 78% · poems 91%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
83% affinity
Shared: women
bio 77% · poems 91%
Elinor Wylie
7 September 1885–16 December 1928 (~43)
83% affinity
Shared: social
bio 79% · poems 88%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
83% affinity
Shared: women
bio 79% · poems 87%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
82% affinity
Shared: social
bio 76% · poems 90%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
82% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 74% · poems 92%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
82% affinity
Shared: social, woman
bio 76% · poems 90%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
82% affinity
Shared: love
bio 76% · poems 90%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 78% · poems 87%
Lizette Woodworth Reese
9 January 1856–17 December 1935 (~79)
81% affinity
Shared: women
bio 76% · poems 89%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: women
bio 79% · poems 84%