Jinn and poetry is a relationship that stretches back to pre-Islamic Arabia.

Jinn were said to inspire the poet or “sha’ir” to rhyming verse. The relationship was obsessive and mystical.

The jinn even had their own compendium of poetry! https://twitter.com/edwardw2/status/1274007820539592704

The 6th century poet Al Qays was inspired by the jinn Lafiz who appeared on a shining horse

Amr ibn Yarbu is said to have married his jinn.

The relationship could be one of inspiration or one of a gift bestowed in love

The Ash’ar al Jinn is said to be a compendium of poetry composed by the jinn themselves stretching back before the creation of Adam.

It is full of the politics, mysteries, and history of the jinn

Repetition of verses is actually common among jinn-inspired poets.

One famous example states two poets who has never met recited identical verses to each other only to discover they shared the same jinn

But the relationship of the sha’ir to the jinn also overlapped with that of the kahin—the soothsayer

Here we find rules about how many times something can be recited as well as which verses can directly be recited from the jinn corpus itself, hinting at magical properties

The Hataf collection is said to have of poems composed by jinn, either inspired or fragments from Ash’ar al Jinn