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 Celia Thaxter
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 89%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
80% affinity
Shared: life, beauty
bio 71% · poems 90%
Marjorie L. C. Pickthall
14 September 1883–22 April 1922 (~39)
79% affinity
Shared: life, imagination
bio 71% · poems 87%
Genevieve Taggard
28 November 1894–8 November 1948 (~54)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 72% · poems 86%
Anne Spencer
6 February 1882–27 July 1975 (~93)
78% affinity
Shared: garden, life
bio 70% · poems 88%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
77% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 69% · poems 87%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
77% affinity
Shared: garden, life
bio 71% · poems 85%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 88%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
77% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 86%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: life
bio 68% · poems 87%
Louise Chandler Moulton
10 April 1835–10 August 1908 (~73)
76% affinity
bio 68% · poems 86%
Lizette Woodworth Reese
9 January 1856–17 December 1935 (~79)
76% affinity
Shared: garden, life
bio 68% · poems 87%