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 Li Bai
Li Shangyin
c. 812–c. 858 (~46)
86% affinity
Shared: tang
bio 86%
Du Fu
712–770 (~58)
80% affinity
Shared: tang dynasty, chang'an
bio 80%
Wang Wei
699–761 (~62)
79% affinity
Shared: chang'an, tang, court
bio 79%
Pei Di
714–c. 800 (~86)
78% affinity
Shared: tang dynasty, chang'an, tang
bio 78%
Meng Haoran
c. 690–740 (~50)
77% affinity
Shared: emperor xuanzong, tang
bio 77%
Matsuo Bashō
1644–28 November 1694 (~50)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Yosa Buson
1716–17 January 1784 (~68)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
67% affinity
bio 67%
Abu Nuwas
c. 756–c. 814 (~58)
67% affinity
bio 67%
Albius Tibullus
c. 55 BC–19 BC (~36)
67% affinity
bio 67%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
67% affinity
bio 67%
Paul Verlaine
30 March 1844–8 January 1896 (~52)
67% affinity
bio 67%