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 Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
81% affinity
Shared: domestic, religious
bio 78% · poems 86%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: women
bio 79% · poems 84%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 78% · poems 86%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
81% affinity
Shared: death, life
bio 76% · poems 88%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
81% affinity
Shared: women
bio 80% · poems 83%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 77% · poems 85%
Achsa White Sprague
17 November 1827–6 July 1862 (~35)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 80%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 77% · poems 84%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 78% · poems 82%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
79% affinity
Shared: women
bio 75% · poems 85%
Elizabeth Stoddard
6 May 1823–1 August 1902 (~79)
79% affinity
Shared: women, domestic
bio 76% · poems 83%
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
18 July 1850–19 July 1939 (~89)
79% affinity
Shared: women
bio 74% · poems 85%