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 Anne Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
89% affinity
Shared: thornton, gondal, novel
bio 84% · poems 96%
Emily Brontë
30 July 1818–19 December 1848 (~30)
87% affinity
Shared: charlotte brontë, gondal, social
bio 80% · poems 96%
Anne Bradstreet
1612–16 September 1672 (~60)
80% affinity
Shared: life, spiritual
bio 73% · poems 89%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: social, novels
bio 71% · poems 89%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 88%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 89%
George Eliot
22 November 1819–22 December 1880 (~61)
77% affinity
Shared: social, novel
bio 70% · poems 86%
Mary Webb
25 March 1881–8 October 1927 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: novel, novels
bio 68% · poems 87%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
77% affinity
Shared: social, novel
bio 66% · poems 89%
Dorothy Greenwell
6 December 1821–29 March 1882 (~61)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 86%
Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan
22 March 1808–15 June 1877 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 65% · poems 89%
Violet Fane
24 February 1843–13 October 1905 (~62)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67% · poems 87%