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 Mary Lamb

Charles Lamb
10 February 1775–27 December 1834 (~59)
5 poems analysed
86% affinity
Shared: london, east india company
bio 83% · poems 90%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
8 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: domestic
bio 76% · poems 86%
Mary Robinson
27 November 1757–26 December 1800 (~43)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74% · poems 84%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
8 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: london
bio 74% · poems 83%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
7 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: london, world
bio 74% · poems 84%
E. Nesbit
15 August 1858–4 May 1924 (~66)
4 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: domestic, childhood
bio 74% · poems 83%
Dorothy Wordsworth
25 December 1771–25 January 1855 (~84)
3 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: domestic
bio 72% · poems 85%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
19 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: london, william godwin, domestic
bio 72% · poems 83%
George Eliot
22 November 1819–22 December 1880 (~61)
2 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: domestic, life
bio 72% · poems 83%
Mary Reynolds Aldis
c. 1872–20 June 1949 (~77)
2 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 80%
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
14 August 1802–15 October 1838 (~36)
3 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: london, childhood
bio 72% · poems 83%
A. Mary F. Robinson
27 February 1857–9 February 1944 (~87)
12 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 70% · poems 85%
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