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 Katharine Lee Bates
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
78% affinity
bio 71% · poems 86%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
77% affinity
Shared: women
bio 71% · poems 86%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: women
bio 71% · poems 84%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882 (~75)
77% affinity
bio 68% · poems 87%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
77% affinity
Shared: women, america
bio 72% · poems 83%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: women
bio 71% · poems 82%
Genevieve Taggard
28 November 1894–8 November 1948 (~54)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 70% · poems 83%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: women
bio 71% · poems 82%
Anne Spencer
6 February 1882–27 July 1975 (~93)
76% affinity
bio 68% · poems 86%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
76% affinity
bio 67% · poems 87%
Grace Fallow Norton
29 October 1876–1926 (~50)
76% affinity
Shared: women
bio 70% · poems 83%
Phoebe Cary
4 September 1824–31 July 1871 (~47)
76% affinity
Shared: women
bio 68% · poems 85%