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 Cecil Frances Alexander
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
79% affinity
Shared: irish
bio 71% · poems 88%
Alice Meynell
11 October 1847–27 November 1922 (~75)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 70% · poems 86%
Charlotte Richardson
5 March 1775–26 September 1825 (~50)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, devotional
bio 72% · poems 84%
Elizabeth Prentiss
26 October 1818–13 August 1878 (~60)
77% affinity
Shared: hymn, religious, devotional
bio 74% · poems 81%
Christina Rossetti
5 December 1830–29 December 1894 (~64)
77% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 69% · poems 87%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
77% affinity
Shared: world, nature
bio 70% · poems 85%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 68% · poems 86%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
76% affinity
Shared: social, world
bio 70% · poems 84%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
76% affinity
Shared: religious, social
bio 69% · poems 85%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 70% · poems 84%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 85%
Alice Cary
26 April 1820–12 February 1871 (~51)
76% affinity
Shared: religious, social
bio 71% · poems 82%