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.

Rank by: Both (blended) Life & context Their poems

Poets whose work rhymes most with E. Nesbit

Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
79 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: love, desire
bio 72% · poems 92%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
7 poems analysed
81% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 89%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
8 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 88%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
19 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: social, domestic, love
bio 70% · poems 90%
Christina Rossetti
5 December 1830–29 December 1894 (~64)
68 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 67% · poems 92%
Alice Meynell
11 October 1847–27 November 1922 (~75)
3 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: love
bio 71% · poems 87%
Mary Lamb
3 December 1764–20 May 1847 (~83)
3 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: domestic, childhood
bio 74% · poems 83%
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
7 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: fiction, marriage, world
bio 68% · poems 90%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
100 poems analysed
78% affinity
bio 67% · poems 90%
Grace Fallow Norton
29 October 1876–1926 (~50)
3 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: love, world
bio 68% · poems 89%
George Eliot
22 November 1819–22 December 1880 (~61)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: social, domestic
bio 70% · poems 86%
Caroline Elizabeth Sheridan
22 March 1808–15 June 1877 (~69)
10 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66% · poems 91%
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