Analysis of metro-rhythmic composition of early and late cycles “Three poems” by Anna Akhmatova

The article is an analysis of the rhythmic-sense unity of two Akhmatova cycles with the same name “Three Poems”. The author comes to the conclusion that fundamental unity of the early and late cycles reveals the relation that Akhmatova herself called “showing a photographic plate”, when “they were all there already”. Akhmatova's poetic system is treated as originally formed continuity.