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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4 August 1792–8 July 1822 (~30)
87% affinity
Shared: frankenstein, romanticism, lake geneva
bio 84% · poems 90%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 72% · poems 85%
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
77% affinity
Shared: novel, fiction, women
bio 68% · poems 87%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
75% affinity
Shared: fiction
bio 68% · poems 84%
Emily Brontë
30 July 1818–19 December 1848 (~30)
75% affinity
Shared: grief, novel, power
bio 68% · poems 84%
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
6 March 1806–29 June 1861 (~55)
75% affinity
Shared: grief, women
bio 67% · poems 84%
Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan
22 March 1808–15 June 1877 (~69)
75% affinity
Shared: women
bio 64% · poems 88%
Christina Rossetti
5 December 1830–29 December 1894 (~64)
74% affinity
Shared: love, life
bio 65% · poems 86%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
74% affinity
Shared: love, life
bio 65% · poems 85%
George Eliot
22 November 1819–22 December 1880 (~61)
74% affinity
Shared: novel, fiction
bio 67% · poems 82%
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
14 August 1802–15 October 1838 (~36)
74% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 66% · poems 83%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
74% affinity
Shared: william godwin, grief, novel
bio 64% · poems 85%