Here Pushkin’s Endless Exile Has Begun

Anna Akhmatova 1889 (Odessa) – 1966 (Moscow)



Here Pushkin's endless exile has begun,
And Lermontov's exile turned out fatal,
The mountain grass has a smell so sweet and gentle,
And only once I managed to discern,
By the lake under the dense shade of a chinara,
In the early evening and ferocious trice
The glare of insatiable dark eyes
Of the immortal lover of Tamara.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBCDEFD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 324
Words 60
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

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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