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 Edith M. Thomas
Edward Thomas
3 March 1878–9 April 1917 (~39)
86% affinity
Shared: beauty, life
bio 82% · poems 91%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
85% affinity
Shared: women
bio 83% · poems 89%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
85% affinity
Shared: life
bio 81% · poems 89%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
85% affinity
Shared: women
bio 82% · poems 88%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
84% affinity
Shared: women
bio 82% · poems 86%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
83% affinity
Shared: beauty, life
bio 77% · poems 90%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
83% affinity
Shared: sonnet
bio 79% · poems 87%
Lizette Woodworth Reese
9 January 1856–17 December 1935 (~79)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 77% · poems 88%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 78% · poems 87%
Grace Fallow Norton
29 October 1876–1926 (~50)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 80% · poems 84%
Alice Meynell
11 October 1847–27 November 1922 (~75)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 79% · poems 86%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 76% · poems 88%