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 Pei Di
Wang Wei
699–761 (~62)
84% affinity
Shared: chang'an, wangchuan, an lushan rebellion
bio 84%
Li Shangyin
c. 812–c. 858 (~46)
81% affinity
Shared: an lushan rebellion, tang
bio 81%
Du Fu
712–770 (~58)
79% affinity
Shared: tang dynasty, chang'an, an lushan rebellion
bio 79%
Meng Haoran
c. 690–740 (~50)
79% affinity
Shared: wang wei, wang, tang
bio 79%
Li Bai
701–762 (~61)
78% affinity
Shared: tang dynasty, chang'an, tang
bio 78%
R. Williams Parry
6 March 1884–4 January 1956 (~72)
70% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 70%
William Shenstone
18 November 1714–11 February 1763 (~49)
68% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 68%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
68% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 68%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
66% affinity
bio 66%
John Vance Cheney
29 December 1848–1 May 1922 (~74)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Cale Young Rice
7 December 1872–24 January 1943 (~71)
66% affinity
bio 66%