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 Emily Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
90% affinity
Shared: haworth, patrick brontë, gondal
bio 84% · poems 96%
Anne Brontë
17 January 1820–28 May 1849 (~29)
87% affinity
Shared: charlotte brontë, gondal, novel
bio 80% · poems 96%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
82% affinity
Shared: domestic, world, death
bio 75% · poems 91%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: social, world, landscape
bio 73% · poems 90%
Anne Bradstreet
1612–16 September 1672 (~60)
79% affinity
Shared: domestic, death, life
bio 70% · poems 89%
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
25 September 1793–16 May 1835 (~42)
78% affinity
Shared: domestic, world, life
bio 68% · poems 89%
Dorothy Wordsworth
25 December 1771–25 January 1855 (~84)
78% affinity
Shared: domestic, world, life
bio 69% · poems 88%
Thomas Hardy
2 June 1840–11 January 1928 (~88)
77% affinity
Shared: novel, social, world
bio 68% · poems 90%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
77% affinity
Shared: world, death, life
bio 67% · poems 90%
Elinor Wylie
7 September 1885–16 December 1928 (~43)
77% affinity
Shared: novel, social, world
bio 70% · poems 85%
Mary Coleridge
23 September 1861–25 August 1907 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 66% · poems 90%
Mary Webb
25 March 1881–8 October 1927 (~46)
77% affinity
Shared: novel, world, life
bio 67% · poems 88%