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 Wang Wei
Pei Di
714–c. 800 (~86)
84% affinity
Shared: chang'an, an lushan rebellion, mountain
bio 84%
Li Shangyin
c. 812–c. 858 (~46)
81% affinity
Shared: an lushan rebellion, tang, court
bio 81%
Meng Haoran
c. 690–740 (~50)
80% affinity
Shared: tang
bio 80%
Li Bai
701–762 (~61)
79% affinity
Shared: chang'an, tang, court
bio 79%
Du Fu
712–770 (~58)
78% affinity
Shared: chang'an, an lushan rebellion, tang
bio 78%
Matsuo Bashō
1644–28 November 1694 (~50)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Yosa Buson
1716–17 January 1784 (~68)
69% affinity
Shared: painting
bio 69%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
68% affinity
bio 68%
David Gray
29 January 1838–3 December 1861 (~23)
68% affinity
Shared: stream
bio 68%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
68% affinity
Shared: power
bio 68%
Thomas Campion
12 February 1567–1 March 1620 (~53)
67% affinity
bio 67%