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 Anna Hempstead Branch
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
79% affinity
Shared: york, women
bio 75% · poems 85%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
79% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 74% · poems 85%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
78% affinity
bio 73% · poems 84%
Anne Spencer
6 February 1882–27 July 1975 (~93)
78% affinity
bio 75% · poems 82%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
78% affinity
bio 72% · poems 84%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 73% · poems 82%
Genevieve Taggard
28 November 1894–8 November 1948 (~54)
77% affinity
Shared: social, york
bio 74% · poems 80%
Anne Bradstreet
1612–16 September 1672 (~60)
77% affinity
Shared: women, divine
bio 75% · poems 79%
Mina Loy
27 December 1882–25 September 1966 (~84)
77% affinity
Shared: social, women
bio 70% · poems 84%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
76% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 83%
Grace Fallow Norton
29 October 1876–1926 (~50)
76% affinity
Shared: women
bio 71% · poems 83%
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
8 July 1902–30 May 1981 (~79)
76% affinity
Shared: power
bio 72% · poems 81%