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 Charlotte Smith
Charlotte Richardson
5 March 1775–26 September 1825 (~50)
84% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 83% · poems 86%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
83% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 77% · poems 91%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
83% affinity
Shared: history, woman
bio 79% · poems 89%
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
83% affinity
Shared: fiction, world, light
bio 78% · poems 90%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
83% affinity
Shared: french revolution, history, social
bio 78% · poems 89%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
83% affinity
Shared: sonnet
bio 79% · poems 87%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: social, woman
bio 76% · poems 90%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
82% affinity
Shared: beauty, world
bio 75% · poems 91%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
82% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 75% · poems 90%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
82% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 76% · poems 89%
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
14 August 1802–15 October 1838 (~36)
82% affinity
Shared: london, history, social
bio 77% · poems 87%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
81% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 78% · poems 86%