Prayer
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 1814 (Moscow) – 1841 (Pyatigorsk, Caucasus Oblast)
At life's most testing moment, when
the grieving heart's replete,
a prayer that is most potent then
I call up and repeat.
There is a power, suffused with grace,
when living words combine,
a breath beyond the commonplace,
that holds a joy divine.
Like dead-weight slipping from the brain
now fades my unbelief -
I trust again, shed tears again,
and such relief, relief…
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 28, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 372 |
Words | 66 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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