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 Li Shangyin
Li Bai
701–762 (~61)
86% affinity
Shared: tang
bio 86%
Du Fu
712–770 (~58)
81% affinity
Shared: an lushan rebellion
bio 81%
Pei Di
714–c. 800 (~86)
81% affinity
Shared: an lushan rebellion, tang
bio 81%
Wang Wei
699–761 (~62)
81% affinity
Shared: an lushan rebellion, tang, dynasty
bio 81%
Meng Haoran
c. 690–740 (~50)
79% affinity
Shared: tang
bio 79%
Arthur O'Shaughnessy
14 March 1844–30 January 1881 (~37)
72% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 72%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
72% affinity
bio 72%
Francis William Bourdillon
22 March 1852–13 January 1921 (~69)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Edward Rowland Sill
29 April 1841–27 February 1887 (~46)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Francis Davison
c. 1575–c. 1619 (~44)
71% affinity
bio 71%
Matsuo Bashō
1644–28 November 1694 (~50)
71% affinity
bio 71%
William Shenstone
18 November 1714–11 February 1763 (~49)
70% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 70%