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 Abu Nuwas
Li Bai
701–762 (~61)
67% affinity
bio 67%
Amastan Ag Mohamed
c. 1803–1878 (~75)
67% affinity
Shared: social
bio 67%
Du Fu
712–770 (~58)
66% affinity
Shared: history
bio 66%
Thomas Nashe
1567–c. 1601 (~34)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Mawlānā Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
30 September 1207–17 December 1273 (~66)
66% affinity
bio 66%
C. P. Cavafy
29 April 1863–29 April 1933 (~70)
64% affinity
bio 64%
Li Shangyin
c. 812–c. 858 (~46)
64% affinity
bio 64%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
64% affinity
bio 64%
Gaius Valerius Catullus
c. 84 BC–c. 54 BC (~30)
63% affinity
Shared: social
bio 63%
William Dunbar
c. 1460–c. 1520 (~60)
63% affinity
bio 63%
Thomas Randolph
15 June 1605–March 1635 (~30)
63% affinity
bio 63%