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 Grace Fallow Norton
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
83% affinity
Shared: religious, self
bio 78% · poems 89%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
83% affinity
Shared: love, wind
bio 77% · poems 90%
Helen Dudley
3 June 1886–1932 (~46)
83% affinity
Shared: women
bio 83%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 77% · poems 88%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 80% · poems 84%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 75% · poems 89%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: women
bio 75% · poems 88%
Alice Meynell
11 October 1847–27 November 1922 (~75)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 75% · poems 86%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 77% · poems 84%
Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
14 September 1883–22 April 1922 (~39)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 76% · poems 84%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
80% affinity
Shared: history, love
bio 74% · poems 87%
Elizabeth Devereux
12 March 1934–29 July 2023 (~89)
79% affinity
bio 78% · poems 82%