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 Marianne Moore
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
81% affinity
Shared: greenwich village
bio 78% · poems 84%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
78% affinity
Shared: world, beauty
bio 76% · poems 82%
Mina Loy
27 December 1882–25 September 1966 (~84)
78% affinity
Shared: greenwich village
bio 73% · poems 83%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
78% affinity
Shared: world
bio 74% · poems 82%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
77% affinity
bio 75% · poems 80%
William H. A. Moore
c. 1885–1960 (~75)
77% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 77%
Thomas Moore
28 May 1779–25 February 1852 (~73)
77% affinity
bio 72% · poems 83%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
77% affinity
Shared: world
bio 71% · poems 84%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
76% affinity
bio 72% · poems 81%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
76% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 73% · poems 79%
T. Sturge Moore
4 March 1870–18 July 1944 (~74)
76% affinity
Shared: philosophical
bio 76%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
76% affinity
bio 72% · poems 81%