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 Edna St. Vincent Millay
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
85% affinity
Shared: world, life
bio 80% · poems 92%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
85% affinity
Shared: woman, world
bio 78% · poems 92%
Sara Teasdale
8 August 1884–29 January 1933 (~49)
85% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 79% · poems 92%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
85% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 79% · poems 91%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
85% affinity
Shared: sonnet
bio 82% · poems 88%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
84% affinity
Shared: women
bio 80% · poems 89%
Charlotte Smith
4 May 1749–28 October 1806 (~57)
83% affinity
bio 77% · poems 91%
Mina Loy
27 December 1882–25 September 1966 (~84)
83% affinity
Shared: greenwich village, women
bio 76% · poems 91%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
82% affinity
Shared: desire, world
bio 74% · poems 92%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
82% affinity
Shared: world, love
bio 75% · poems 91%
Hilda Doolittle
10 September 1886–27 September 1961 (~75)
82% affinity
Shared: women, world
bio 76% · poems 89%
Helen Hoyt
22 January 1887–2 August 1972 (~85)
82% affinity
Shared: women
bio 80% · poems 84%