Statistics for Female Poets

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Original Language	Works	Poet	% Correct
English	"'Hope' is the thing with feathers"; "Because I could not stop for Death"	Emily Dickinson	79%
English	Sonnet XLIII ("How Do I Love Thee"); Aurora Leigh	Elizabeth Barrett Browning	74%
archaic Greek	most poems lost (only fragments of her lyrics survive)	Sappho	72%
English	The Colossus; Ariel	Silvia Plath	72%
English	"Still I Rise"; "Phenomenal Woman"	Maya Angelou	54%
English	Tender Buttons; "Sacred Emily"	Gertrude Stein	23%
Spanish	Sonnets of Death; Poem of Chile	Gabriela Mistral	21%
Russian	Requiem; Poem without a Hero	Anna Akhmatova	15%
Middle French	The Poem of Joan of Arc	Christine de Pizan	13%
Spanish	The Dream; Loa to Divine Narcissus	Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz	8%
Sumerian	The Exaltation of Inanna; Goddess of the Fearsome Powers	Enheduanna	5%
Francien (a precursor of French)	Lanval; Bisclavret; Laüstic	Marie de France	5%
German	John the Baptist; Antichrist; Life of Jesus	Ava	3%
Arabic	Elegies for Ṣakhr and Muʿāwiyah	al-Khansā	0%
Old Japanese	several love poems in the Kokinshū	Ono no Komachi	0%