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 Matsuo Bashō
Yosa Buson
1716–17 January 1784 (~68)
86% affinity
Shared: tokugawa shogunate, haikai
bio 86%
Yone Noguchi
8 December 1875–13 July 1947 (~72)
76% affinity
Shared: sabi
bio 69% · poems 85%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
74% affinity
Shared: life, nature
bio 71% · poems 78%
Sadakichi Hartmann
8 November 1867–22 November 1944 (~77)
73% affinity
Shared: japan
bio 70% · poems 78%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
72% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 68% · poems 78%
Wang Wei
699–761 (~62)
72% affinity
bio 72%
William Wordsworth
7 April 1770–23 April 1850 (~80)
72% affinity
Shared: life, nature
bio 66% · poems 78%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
71% affinity
bio 67% · poems 77%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
71% affinity
Shared: social, nature
bio 67% · poems 77%
A.E.Housman
26 March 1859–30 April 1936 (~77)
71% affinity
Shared: life, nature
bio 68% · poems 75%
W. H. Davies
3 July 1871–26 September 1940 (~69)
71% affinity
Shared: social, life
bio 66% · poems 78%
Meng Haoran
c. 690–740 (~50)
71% affinity
Shared: travel, social
bio 71%