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 Christina Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
12 May 1828–9 April 1882 (~54)
87% affinity
Shared: pre-raphaelite brotherhood
bio 81% · poems 95%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
82% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 72% · poems 94%
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
6 March 1806–29 June 1861 (~55)
82% affinity
Shared: illness
bio 75% · poems 90%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
81% affinity
Shared: illness, woman
bio 73% · poems 92%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
81% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 72% · poems 91%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
80% affinity
Shared: religious, divine
bio 72% · poems 91%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: life, beauty
bio 72% · poems 90%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
80% affinity
Shared: woman, world
bio 71% · poems 91%
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
18 July 1850–19 July 1939 (~89)
80% affinity
Shared: life, love
bio 71% · poems 91%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
80% affinity
Shared: woman, world
bio 71% · poems 90%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
80% affinity
Shared: woman, world
bio 70% · poems 91%
Charlotte Richardson
5 March 1775–26 September 1825 (~50)
79% affinity
Shared: religious, woman
bio 71% · poems 89%