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 Jane Austen
Charlotte Brontë
21 April 1816–31 March 1855 (~39)
77% affinity
Shared: fiction, novel, marriage
bio 77% · poems 77%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
76% affinity
Shared: social, fiction, novels
bio 76% · poems 75%
Anne Brontë
17 January 1820–28 May 1849 (~29)
75% affinity
Shared: social, novels, novel
bio 74% · poems 75%
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
20 June 1743–9 March 1825 (~82)
74% affinity
Shared: social
bio 71% · poems 77%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
73% affinity
Shared: letters, world
bio 70% · poems 76%
George Eliot
22 November 1819–22 December 1880 (~61)
73% affinity
Shared: social, fiction, novel
bio 74% · poems 71%
Dorothy Parker
22 August 1893–7 June 1967 (~74)
73% affinity
Shared: social
bio 69% · poems 77%
Emily Brontë
30 July 1818–19 December 1848 (~30)
73% affinity
Shared: social, novel, world
bio 71% · poems 74%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
72% affinity
Shared: social, novel
bio 70% · poems 75%
Aphra Behn
1640–16 April 1689 (~49)
72% affinity
Shared: marriage, women
bio 70% · poems 75%
E. Nesbit
15 August 1858–4 May 1924 (~66)
72% affinity
Shared: social, fiction, marriage
bio 70% · poems 74%
Mary Lamb
3 December 1764–20 May 1847 (~83)
72% affinity
Shared: world
bio 69% · poems 74%