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 Dorothy Parker
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: social, women
bio 74% · poems 85%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
79% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 74% · poems 84%
Amy Levy
10 November 1861–10 September 1889 (~28)
77% affinity
Shared: social, women
bio 71% · poems 84%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
77% affinity
Shared: social
bio 74% · poems 80%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
77% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 71% · poems 83%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
76% affinity
Shared: life, self
bio 69% · poems 84%
Gertrude Stein
3 February 1874–27 July 1946 (~72)
76% affinity
Shared: social, women
bio 73% · poems 80%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
75% affinity
Shared: social, woman
bio 69% · poems 83%
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
18 July 1850–19 July 1939 (~89)
75% affinity
Shared: women
bio 68% · poems 83%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
75% affinity
Shared: social, women, woman
bio 67% · poems 84%
A. Mary F. Robinson
27 February 1857–9 February 1944 (~87)
75% affinity
Shared: life
bio 67% · poems 84%
Mary Reynolds Aldis
c. 1872–20 June 1949 (~77)
74% affinity
Shared: social, women, woman
bio 71% · poems 79%