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 Helen Hunt Jackson

Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
7 poems analysed
79% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 86%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
100 poems analysed
79% affinity
bio 71% · poems 88%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
185 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 69% · poems 89%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
22 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 86%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: native
bio 75% · poems 82%
Elizabeth Stoddard
6 May 1823–1 August 1902 (~79)
2 poems analysed
78% affinity
Shared: novel, women
bio 70% · poems 87%
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
18 July 1850–19 July 1939 (~89)
4 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: women, life
bio 70% · poems 86%
Georgia Douglas Johnson
10 September 1880–15 May 1966 (~86)
3 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: women, life
bio 71% · poems 84%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
2 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 72% · poems 83%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
7 poems analysed
77% affinity
bio 69% · poems 86%
Hilda Doolittle
10 September 1886–27 September 1961 (~75)
6 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: women, world, life
bio 72% · poems 83%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
2 poems analysed
77% affinity
Shared: women
bio 70% · poems 85%
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