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 Prentiss
Anne Bradstreet
1612–16 September 1672 (~60)
80% affinity
Shared: religious, domestic
bio 76% · poems 84%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: religious, domestic
bio 75% · poems 84%
Dorothy Greenwell
6 December 1821–29 March 1882 (~61)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, women
bio 71% · poems 87%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, domestic
bio 73% · poems 84%
Charlotte Richardson
5 March 1775–26 September 1825 (~50)
78% affinity
Shared: religious, domestic
bio 74% · poems 82%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, domestic
bio 70% · poems 86%
Grace Fallow Norton
29 October 1876–1926 (~50)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, women
bio 76% · poems 79%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: women
bio 74% · poems 81%
Elizabeth Devereux
12 March 1934–29 July 2023 (~89)
77% affinity
bio 75% · poems 80%
Cecil Frances Alexander
14 April 1818–12 October 1895 (~77)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, hymn
bio 74% · poems 81%
Sarah Doudney
15 January 1841–8 December 1926 (~85)
77% affinity
Shared: religious, domestic
bio 77%
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
77% affinity
Shared: fiction, women, novel
bio 71% · poems 84%