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 Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
84% affinity
bio 77% · poems 93%
Christina Rossetti
5 December 1830–29 December 1894 (~64)
82% affinity
bio 75% · poems 90%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: social, sonnet
bio 75% · poems 88%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
80% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 75% · poems 88%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
79% affinity
Shared: women, illness
bio 72% · poems 88%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
79% affinity
Shared: women, social, love
bio 72% · poems 88%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
79% affinity
Shared: women, love
bio 72% · poems 87%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
79% affinity
Shared: women, love
bio 73% · poems 86%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 72% · poems 86%
Violet Fane
24 February 1843–13 October 1905 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 72% · poems 86%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
78% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 71% · poems 87%
Louise Chandler Moulton
10 April 1835–10 August 1908 (~73)
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 73% · poems 85%