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 Du Fu
Li Shangyin
c. 812–c. 858 (~46)
81% affinity
Shared: an lushan rebellion, official
bio 81%
Li Bai
701–762 (~61)
80% affinity
Shared: tang dynasty, chang'an, official
bio 80%
Meng Haoran
c. 690–740 (~50)
80% affinity
Shared: official, tang
bio 80%
Pei Di
714–c. 800 (~86)
79% affinity
Shared: tang dynasty, chang'an, an lushan rebellion
bio 79%
Wang Wei
699–761 (~62)
78% affinity
Shared: chang'an, an lushan rebellion, tang
bio 78%
Matsuo Bashō
1644–28 November 1694 (~50)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Ernest Dowson
2 August 1867–23 February 1900 (~33)
69% affinity
bio 69%
Mark Van Doren
13 June 1894–10 December 1972 (~78)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
68% affinity
bio 68%