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 Meng Haoran
Wang Wei
699–761 (~62)
80% affinity
Shared: tang
bio 80%
Du Fu
712–770 (~58)
80% affinity
Shared: tang, official
bio 80%
Li Shangyin
c. 812–c. 858 (~46)
79% affinity
Shared: tang, official
bio 79%
Pei Di
714–c. 800 (~86)
79% affinity
Shared: wang wei, tang, landscape
bio 79%
Li Bai
701–762 (~61)
77% affinity
Shared: emperor xuanzong, tang, official
bio 77%
Matsuo Bashō
1644–28 November 1694 (~50)
71% affinity
Shared: social, travel
bio 71%
Yosa Buson
1716–17 January 1784 (~68)
69% affinity
Shared: social, travel
bio 69%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
69% affinity
Shared: landscape
bio 69%
William Shenstone
18 November 1714–11 February 1763 (~49)
68% affinity
Shared: landscape, social
bio 68%
Henry Vaughan
17 April 1621–23 April 1695 (~74)
67% affinity
bio 67%
Amastan Ag Mohamed
c. 1803–1878 (~75)
66% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
66% affinity
bio 66%