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 Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
83% affinity
Shared: history
bio 79% · poems 89%
Hilda Doolittle
10 September 1886–27 September 1961 (~75)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 78% · poems 87%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
82% affinity
Shared: memory, life
bio 74% · poems 91%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
81% affinity
Shared: women
bio 75% · poems 89%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
81% affinity
Shared: women
bio 76% · poems 87%
Violet Fane
24 February 1843–13 October 1905 (~62)
81% affinity
Shared: women, memory
bio 74% · poems 90%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
81% affinity
Shared: domestic, life
bio 75% · poems 89%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 74% · poems 88%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 74% · poems 89%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
80% affinity
Shared: women, domestic
bio 77% · poems 84%
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
18 July 1850–19 July 1939 (~89)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 72% · poems 89%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
80% affinity
Shared: women, domestic
bio 71% · poems 90%