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 Emily Dickinson
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
85% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 80% · poems 92%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
85% affinity
Shared: life
bio 81% · poems 89%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
84% affinity
Shared: life, death
bio 78% · poems 91%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
83% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 76% · poems 91%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
83% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 75% · poems 92%
Grace Fallow Norton
29 October 1876–1926 (~50)
83% affinity
Shared: religious, world
bio 78% · poems 89%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
83% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 76% · poems 91%
Hilda Doolittle
10 September 1886–27 September 1961 (~75)
82% affinity
Shared: life, world, nature
bio 77% · poems 88%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
82% affinity
Shared: life, nature
bio 77% · poems 88%
Emily Brontë
30 July 1818–19 December 1848 (~30)
82% affinity
Shared: domestic, life, world
bio 75% · poems 91%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
82% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 75% · poems 90%
Anne Bradstreet
1612–16 September 1672 (~60)
82% affinity
Shared: massachusetts, religious
bio 77% · poems 87%