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 Whitney
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
75% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 64% · poems 89%
Anne Spencer
6 February 1882–27 July 1975 (~93)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 66% · poems 86%
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
8 July 1902–30 May 1981 (~79)
75% affinity
bio 67% · poems 84%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 65% · poems 85%
Phoebe Cary
4 September 1824–31 July 1871 (~47)
74% affinity
Shared: women's rights, women, social
bio 65% · poems 84%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
73% affinity
Shared: women, life
bio 64% · poems 84%
Dorothy Greenwell
6 December 1821–29 March 1882 (~61)
73% affinity
Shared: women's rights, women
bio 62% · poems 85%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
72% affinity
Shared: women, life
bio 60% · poems 87%
Anne Brontë
17 January 1820–28 May 1849 (~29)
72% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 62% · poems 84%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
72% affinity
Shared: civil war, life, death
bio 58% · poems 89%
Lizette Woodworth Reese
9 January 1856–17 December 1935 (~79)
72% affinity
Shared: women, social
bio 61% · poems 86%
Phillis Wheatley
c. 1753–5 December 1784 (~31)
72% affinity
Shared: boston
bio 64% · poems 82%