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 Lizette Woodworth Reese
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
83% affinity
Shared: women
bio 78% · poems 89%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 77% · poems 88%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
82% affinity
Shared: women, memory
bio 78% · poems 86%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
82% affinity
Shared: memory, life
bio 74% · poems 91%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
81% affinity
Shared: women
bio 76% · poems 89%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
81% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 74% · poems 89%
Alice Meynell
11 October 1847–27 November 1922 (~75)
81% affinity
Shared: women
bio 77% · poems 86%
Charlotte Richardson
5 March 1775–26 September 1825 (~50)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 75% · poems 87%
Amy Levy
10 November 1861–10 September 1889 (~28)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 74% · poems 88%
Elizabeth Devereux
12 March 1934–29 July 2023 (~89)
80% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 76% · poems 86%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
80% affinity
Shared: women
bio 73% · poems 88%
Alice Cary
26 April 1820–12 February 1871 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: women
bio 74% · poems 86%