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 Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
83% affinity
Shared: french revolution
bio 78% · poems 89%
Joanna Baillie
11 September 1762–23 February 1851 (~89)
81% affinity
bio 77% · poems 87%
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
6 March 1806–29 June 1861 (~55)
80% affinity
Shared: women, life
bio 75% · poems 88%
Mary Lamb
3 December 1764–20 May 1847 (~83)
80% affinity
bio 76% · poems 86%
Anne Bradstreet
1612–16 September 1672 (~60)
80% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 75% · poems 86%
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: women, life, self
bio 73% · poems 89%
E. Nesbit
15 August 1858–4 May 1924 (~66)
80% affinity
Shared: domestic
bio 73% · poems 88%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 73% · poems 88%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 85%
A. Mary F. Robinson
27 February 1857–9 February 1944 (~87)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 88%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
79% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
79% affinity
bio 72% · poems 88%