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 Gertrude Stein
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
77% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 71% · poems 85%
Eunice Tietjens
29 July 1884–6 September 1944 (~60)
77% affinity
Shared: women
bio 73% · poems 82%
Genevieve Taggard
28 November 1894–8 November 1948 (~54)
77% affinity
Shared: woman, social
bio 72% · poems 83%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
76% affinity
Shared: women
bio 72% · poems 81%
Dorothy Parker
22 August 1893–7 June 1967 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 73% · poems 80%
Mina Loy
27 December 1882–25 September 1966 (~84)
76% affinity
Shared: paris, women
bio 68% · poems 86%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
75% affinity
Shared: woman, social
bio 67% · poems 85%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
75% affinity
Shared: domestic, world
bio 67% · poems 84%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
75% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 69% · poems 82%
Hilda Doolittle
10 September 1886–27 September 1961 (~75)
75% affinity
Shared: women, world
bio 69% · poems 82%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
75% affinity
Shared: world
bio 69% · poems 82%
Amy Levy
10 November 1861–10 September 1889 (~28)
74% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 69% · poems 81%