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 Phillis Wheatley
Frances E. W. Harper
24 September 1825–22 February 1911 (~86)
80% affinity
Shared: african, slavery
bio 78% · poems 83%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
77% affinity
Shared: spiritual, divine
bio 71% · poems 85%
Phoebe Cary
4 September 1824–31 July 1871 (~47)
76% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 73% · poems 80%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: woman, christian
bio 70% · poems 84%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
76% affinity
Shared: american revolution
bio 68% · poems 86%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
76% affinity
Shared: woman, spiritual
bio 70% · poems 83%
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
8 July 1902–30 May 1981 (~79)
76% affinity
Shared: african, woman
bio 72% · poems 80%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
75% affinity
Shared: african, divine
bio 69% · poems 84%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
75% affinity
Shared: london, woman
bio 70% · poems 82%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
75% affinity
bio 72% · poems 79%
Anne Bradstreet
1612–16 September 1672 (~60)
75% affinity
Shared: woman, spiritual
bio 69% · poems 82%
Georgia Douglas Johnson
10 September 1880–15 May 1966 (~86)
75% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 70% · poems 81%