Bored And Sad
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov 1814 (Moscow) – 1841 (Pyatigorsk, Caucasus Oblast)
It's boring and sad, and there's no one around
In times of my spirit's travail...
Desires!...What use is our vain and eternal desire?..
While years pass on by - all the best years!
To love...but love whom?.. a short love is vexing,
And permanent love's just a myth.
Perhaps look within? - The past's left no trace:
All trivial, joys and distress...
What good are the passions? For sooner or later
Their sweet sickness ends when reason speaks up;
And life, if surveyed with cold-blooded regard,-
Is stupid and empty - a joke...
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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Scheme | XXAX XXXX AXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 524 |
Words | 98 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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