Thanks, Glenn.
I don’t have a good understanding of Acmeist aesthetics either, and the group, though small, was loose and disparate.
There are two slant rhymes in the poem, другими/имя and пламя/крылами, which is interesting, since Russian poetry has always been formally conservative, no matter how weird the content.
The Poe associations are interesting. I thought of the woman addressed by Zenkevich as alive, though, just gone from his life, but I have no evidence other than that she’s dead “for me.”
At least one element of your pattern persists here: the unobtainable woman.
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