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 Dorothy Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
88% affinity
Shared: cockermouth, lyrical ballads, dove cottage
bio 83% · poems 94%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
81% affinity
Shared: domestic
bio 74% · poems 89%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 76% · poems 87%
Dorothy Greenwell
6 December 1821–29 March 1882 (~61)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 79% · poems 82%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 74% · poems 88%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 71% · poems 91%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 72% · poems 89%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
79% affinity
bio 70% · poems 91%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
79% affinity
Shared: domestic, life
bio 71% · poems 90%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: samuel taylor coleridge
bio 71% · poems 89%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
79% affinity
Shared: life, nature
bio 73% · poems 86%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 88%