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 Elizabeth Stoddard
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
81% affinity
Shared: women, nature
bio 76% · poems 88%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
81% affinity
Shared: women, york
bio 76% · poems 88%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: fiction, novels
bio 77% · poems 86%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: new york city, women
bio 73% · poems 89%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
79% affinity
Shared: beauty
bio 70% · poems 91%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: women
bio 74% · poems 86%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 76% · poems 83%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: woman, beauty
bio 73% · poems 87%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
79% affinity
Shared: domestic, nature
bio 71% · poems 89%
Fannie Isabel Sherrick
c. 31 May 1855–c. 1890 (~35)
79% affinity
Shared: women, beauty
bio 71% · poems 89%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
79% affinity
Shared: women, novel, woman
bio 72% · poems 88%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
79% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 71% · poems 88%