What is the author's style in Midnight Verses by Anna Akhmatova?

The first person is the use of "I" or "me" in describing the action, and Akhmatova uses this device consistently throughout the poem. Readers generally assume that the first person narrator is similar in background and circumstance to the poet, even though many poets will create a persona with which to hide their true feelings.

This poem also uses the second person form of address, speaking to an unidentified "you." Like the first person, the second person often helps to certify the authenticity of the emotions that hold the poem together. Readers feel that they have come into a circumstance in which the principle characters already know each other and take their relationship to one another for granted. The second person form of address requires readers to imagine what the other person is like from the details of the poem, with no other information. In this case, readers can sense the emotional connection between the two main characters from the fact that "In Place of a Dedication" says that a meeting between them would be more difficult than "separation," a word that would not be used if this strong emotion were hatred. The fact that there are two people, with a strong bond between them, lets Akhmatova explore her subject in more depth, within a social situation.