Analysis of Crucifix

Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)



Do not cry for me, Mother, seeing me in the grave.

I
This greatest hour was hallowed and thandered
By angel's choirs; fire melted sky.
He asked his Father:"Why am I abandoned...?"
And told his Mother: "Mother, do not cry..."

II
Magdalena struggled, cried and moaned.
Peter sank into the stone trance...
Only there, where Mother stood alone,
None has dared cast a single glance.


Scheme X ABABA ABCXC
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110101001 1 1101011001 11110101 111111010 0111010111 1 01010101 10101011 101110101 11110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 385
Words 70
Sentences 8
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 5, 5
Lines Amount 11
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 95
Words per stanza (avg) 22
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 29, 2023

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Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova was born in 1889 in Odessa on the Black Sea coast. In 1910 she married Nikolai Gumilev, who was also a poet. He was shot as an alleged counter-revolutionary in 1921. Very little of Akhmatova's poetry was published between 1923 and 1941. After Stalin's death her poetry began to be published again. She died in 1966, in a suburb of Moscow. more…

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