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 Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
Kahlil Gibran
6 January 1883–10 April 1931 (~48)
75% affinity
Shared: music, spiritual
bio 68% · poems 83%
Rabindranath Tagore
7 May 1861–7 August 1941 (~80)
73% affinity
Shared: music, spiritual
bio 64% · poems 83%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
21 October 1772–25 July 1834 (~62)
72% affinity
Shared: religious, spiritual
bio 64% · poems 81%
Edward FitzGerald
31 March 1809–14 June 1883 (~74)
71% affinity
Shared: persian
bio 71%
Cale Young Rice
7 December 1872–24 January 1943 (~71)
71% affinity
Shared: religious
bio 62% · poems 81%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
70% affinity
Shared: music, love
bio 63% · poems 80%
Manmohan Ghose
19 January 1869–4 January 1924 (~55)
70% affinity
Shared: beloved
bio 63% · poems 80%
Robert Browning
7 May 1812–12 December 1889 (~77)
70% affinity
Shared: love, beloved
bio 62% · poems 79%
George William Russell
10 April 1867–17 July 1935 (~68)
70% affinity
Shared: spiritual, divine
bio 61% · poems 81%
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
1836–1870 (~34)
70% affinity
Shared: love, beloved
bio 61% · poems 80%
James Clarence Mangan
1 May 1803–20 June 1849 (~46)
70% affinity
Shared: love, beloved
bio 62% · poems 80%
Andrew Marvell
31 March 1621–16 August 1678 (~57)
70% affinity
Shared: religious, love
bio 61% · poems 80%