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 Sappho
Mina Loy
27 December 1882–25 September 1966 (~84)
71% affinity
Shared: women, desire
bio 64% · poems 80%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
71% affinity
Shared: women, desire
bio 65% · poems 78%
Hilda Doolittle
10 September 1886–27 September 1961 (~75)
71% affinity
Shared: women
bio 66% · poems 77%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
71% affinity
Shared: loss, love
bio 63% · poems 79%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
70% affinity
Shared: women, love
bio 64% · poems 77%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
70% affinity
Shared: desire, love
bio 62% · poems 79%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
70% affinity
Shared: divine
bio 65% · poems 76%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
70% affinity
Shared: women, desire, love
bio 62% · poems 78%
Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC (~30)
69% affinity
Shared: desire, sappho
bio 63% · poems 77%
Helen Hoyt
22 January 1887–2 August 1972 (~85)
69% affinity
Shared: women, desire
bio 64% · poems 76%
Katherine Philips
1 January 1632–22 June 1664 (~32)
69% affinity
Shared: women, loss
bio 63% · poems 76%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
69% affinity
Shared: women, love
bio 62% · poems 77%