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 Genevieve Taggard
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
82% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 77% · poems 89%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
82% affinity
Shared: york
bio 76% · poems 89%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
81% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 77% · poems 84%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
80% affinity
Shared: life, memory
bio 73% · poems 90%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
80% affinity
Shared: new york city, york
bio 76% · poems 85%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 87%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 88%
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
8 July 1902–30 May 1981 (~79)
79% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 74% · poems 85%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 71% · poems 89%
Hilda Doolittle
10 September 1886–27 September 1961 (~75)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 73% · poems 86%
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
1 September 1791–10 June 1865 (~74)
79% affinity
Shared: woman, life
bio 76% · poems 82%
Helen Hoyt
22 January 1887–2 August 1972 (~85)
79% affinity
Shared: social
bio 75% · poems 84%