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 Achsa White Sprague

Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
2 poems analysed
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 80%
Myra Viola Wilds
c. 1880–c. 1935 (~55)
2 poems analysed
76% affinity
Shared: women, illness
bio 76%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
2 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: women
bio 75%
Grace Fallow Norton
29 October 1876–1926 (~50)
3 poems analysed
75% affinity
Shared: women
bio 75%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
22 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: women
bio 74%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: women
bio 74%
Elizabeth Prentiss
26 October 1818–13 August 1878 (~60)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: women, religious
bio 74%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
185 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 74%
Josephine Preston Peabody
30 May 1874–4 December 1922 (~48)
2 poems analysed
74% affinity
Shared: women
bio 74%
Elizabeth Devereux
12 March 1934–29 July 2023 (~89)
2 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 73%
Eunice Tietjens
29 July 1884–6 September 1944 (~60)
2 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 73%
Dorothy Greenwell
6 December 1821–29 March 1882 (~61)
2 poems analysed
73% affinity
Shared: women's rights, women, religious
bio 73%
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