{"work":{"slug":"rilke","title":{"source":"Neue Gedichte","translated":"New Poems"},"author":"Rainer Maria Rilke","language":"German","languageCode":"de","url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke"},"unit":{"kind":"poem","number":null,"id":"die-versuchung","title":{"source":"Die Versuchung","translated":"The Temptation"},"section":"New Poems: The Other Part","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/die-versuchung","lines":24},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/das-juengste-gericht","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/der-alchimist","license":"Source text: public domain (Rainer Maria Rilke, died 1926; Neue Gedichte published 1907 and 1908), from Wikisource. English translation and notes: © 2026 1732 Studios, LLC. Narration: synthesized for this edition.","audioBase":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/","lines":[{"number":1,"label":"1","id":"die-versuchung-s1-l1","source":"Nein, es half nicht, daß er sich die scharfen","translation":"No, it did not help that he drove the sharp","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"es half nicht, daß","title":"Impersonal es with helfen","body":"es half nicht, daß means 'it did no good that' or 'it was no use that'. helfen, 'to help, avail', is used impersonally here, with es as a placeholder subject while the real content follows in the daß-clause. daß is the pre-1996 spelling of dass."}],"words":[{"surface":"Nein","lemma":"nein","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on half","gloss":"No"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on half","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"half","lemma":"helfen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"helped"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on half","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"daß","lemma":"daß","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"introduces the clause with einhieb (s1-l2)","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of einhieb (s1-l2)","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on einhieb (s1-l2)","gloss":"himself","note":"Dative reflexive: 'sich etwas einhauen' = to drive something into oneself."},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on scharfen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"scharfen","lemma":"scharf","morphology":"adjective, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Stacheln (s1-l2)","gloss":"sharp"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"die-versuchung-s1-l2","source":"Stacheln einhieb in das geile Fleisch;","translation":"spines into his rank flesh;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"einhieb","title":"Separable verb einhauen, split","body":"einhieb is the simple past of the separable verb einhauen, 'to drive in, hack into', with the prefix ein- fused back onto hieb because the verb sits at the end of the daß-clause. Its object, die scharfen Stacheln, 'the sharp spines', was begun in the line before, split across the line break."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"das geile Fleisch","title":"Geil in its older sense","body":"geil here means 'lustful, lecherous, rank', not the modern colloquial sense. It also carries an older meaning of vegetation grown too lush, 'rank'. das geile Fleisch describes the flesh as overgrown with desire, the thing the spines are driven into."}],"words":[{"surface":"Stacheln","lemma":"Stachel","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on einhieb","gloss":"spines"},{"surface":"einhieb","lemma":"einhauen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"drove"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on einhieb","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Fleisch","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"geile","lemma":"geil","morphology":"adjective, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Fleisch","gloss":"rank","note":"Archaic sense of 'geil': rank, lush, overripe — not the modern colloquial meaning."},{"surface":"Fleisch","lemma":"Fleisch","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"flesh"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"die-versuchung-s1-l3","source":"alle seine trächtigen Sinne warfen","translation":"all his teeming senses cast","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"trächtig","title":"Literally pregnant","body":"trächtig means 'pregnant, gravid', normally used of animals carrying young. Applied to Sinne, 'senses', it makes the senses gravid, set up to werfen, 'to cast', in the next stanza, itself the verb for an animal giving birth to a litter."}],"words":[{"surface":"alle","lemma":"aller","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Sinne","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"seine","lemma":"sein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Sinne","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"trächtigen","lemma":"trächtig","morphology":"adjective, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Sinne","gloss":"teeming","note":"Literally 'pregnant, gravid'; rendered here as 'teeming'."},{"surface":"Sinne","lemma":"Sinn","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on warfen","gloss":"senses"},{"surface":"warfen","lemma":"werfen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"cast"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"die-versuchung-s1-l4","source":"unter kreißendem Gekreisch","translation":"amid labouring shrieks","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"kreißendem Gekreisch","title":"Two near-homophones fused","body":"kreißend is the present participle of kreißen, 'to be in labour, to writhe in childbirth'. Gekreisch means shrieking, from the Ge- prefix marking a mass of noise. Kreißendem Gekreisch, 'in-labour shrieking', joins the two similar-sounding words so birth-cries and screams read as one sound."}],"words":[{"surface":"unter","lemma":"unter","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on warfen (s1-l3)","gloss":"amid"},{"surface":"kreißendem","lemma":"kreißen","morphology":"adjective (present participle), dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gekreisch","gloss":"labouring"},{"surface":"Gekreisch","lemma":"Gekreisch","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on unter","gloss":"shrieks"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"die-versuchung-s2-l1","source":"Frühgeburten: schiefe, hingeschielte","translation":"premature births: crooked, askance-leering","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Frühgeburten","title":"Premature births as object","body":"Frühgeburten, 'premature births', is the accusative object of warfen two lines above, in apposition with Gesichte and Nichte. The senses cast up these premature births rather than children. Hingeschielte is coined from schielen, 'to squint, look askance', describing them as crooked and leering."}],"words":[{"surface":"Frühgeburten","lemma":"Frühgeburt","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on warfen (s1-l3), in apposition to Gesichte/Nichte","gloss":"premature births"},{"surface":"schiefe","lemma":"schief","morphology":"adjective, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Frühgeburten","gloss":"crooked"},{"surface":"hingeschielte","lemma":"hinschielen","morphology":"adjective (past participle), accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Frühgeburten","gloss":"askance-leering"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"die-versuchung-s2-l2","source":"kriechende und fliegende Gesichte,","translation":"crawling and flying apparitions,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Gesichte","title":"A second plural of Gesicht","body":"das Gesicht has two plurals. Gesichter means 'faces'; Gesichte, used here, means 'visions, apparitions'. The parses mark it as accusative, in apposition with Frühgeburten, both objects of warfen. Rilke chooses the visionary plural, not the plural for faces."}],"words":[{"surface":"kriechende","lemma":"kriechend","morphology":"adjective, accusative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on Gesichte","gloss":"crawling"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on kriechende","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"fliegende","lemma":"fliegend","morphology":"adjective, accusative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on und","gloss":"flying"},{"surface":"Gesichte","lemma":"Gesicht","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on warfen (s1-l3), in apposition to Frühgeburten","gloss":"apparitions"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"die-versuchung-s2-l3","source":"Nichte, deren nur auf ihn erpichte","translation":"nieces whose malice, bent on him alone,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"auf ihn erpicht","title":"erpicht auf plus accusative","body":"erpicht auf etwas or jemanden sein means 'to be bent on, fixed on' something, and takes the accusative, here auf ihn, 'on him'. The relative deren points ahead to Bosheit in the next line, so the clause reads 'nieces whose malice, bent only on him,'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Nichte","lemma":"Nichte","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on warfen (s1-l3), in apposition to Gesichte","gloss":"nieces","note":"Poetic plural of 'Nichte' (niece); standard plural would be 'Nichten'."},{"surface":"deren","lemma":"der","morphology":"relative pronoun, genitive","role":"depends on Bosheit (s2-l4)","gloss":"whose"},{"surface":"nur","lemma":"nur","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"only"},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on erpichte","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"ihn","lemma":"ihn","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"erpichte","lemma":"erpicht","morphology":"adjective, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Bosheit (s2-l4)","gloss":"bent","note":"'erpicht auf' = bent on, keen on."}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"die-versuchung-s2-l4","source":"Bosheit sich verband und mit ihm spielte.","translation":"joined forces and toyed with him.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"sich verband","title":"Reflexive verbinden","body":"sich verbinden means 'to join together, combine, ally'. Bosheit sich verband is 'malice joined itself together', the reflexive sich taking the accusative. verband and spielte are both simple past, and spielte continues the same relative clause opened by deren in the line before."}],"words":[{"surface":"Bosheit","lemma":"Bosheit","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on verband","gloss":"malice"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on verband","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"verband","lemma":"verbinden","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"joined forces"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on verband","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on spielte","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"ihm","lemma":"ihm","morphology":"pronoun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"spielte","lemma":"spielen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"toyed"}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"die-versuchung-s3-l1","source":"Und schon hatten seine Sinne Enkel;","translation":"And already his senses had grandchildren;","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Enkel","title":"Grandchildren of the senses","body":"der Enkel means 'grandchild, grandson'. Here it is the accusative object of hatten: seine Sinne hatten Enkel, 'his senses had grandchildren'. This marks a third generation, since the senses already produced Frühgeburten in the stanza before. schon means 'already'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on hatten","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"schon","lemma":"schon","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hatten","gloss":"already"},{"surface":"hatten","lemma":"haben","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"had"},{"surface":"seine","lemma":"sein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Sinne","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"Sinne","lemma":"Sinn","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on hatten","gloss":"senses"},{"surface":"Enkel","lemma":"Enkel","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on hatten","gloss":"grandchildren"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"die-versuchung-s3-l2","source":"denn das Pack war fruchtbar in der Nacht","translation":"for the rabble was fruitful in the night","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"das Pack","title":"A contemptuous collective noun","body":"das Pack is a collective noun meaning 'rabble, riffraff'. It is the nominative subject of war. fruchtbar means 'fertile, fruitful'. denn, 'for, because', links this line back to the previous one as its explanation: the pack was fruitful in der Nacht, 'in the night'."}],"words":[{"surface":"denn","lemma":"denn","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on war","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Pack","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Pack","lemma":"Pack","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of war","gloss":"rabble"},{"surface":"war","lemma":"sein","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"fruchtbar","lemma":"fruchtbar","morphology":"adjective, predicate","role":"predicate complement of war","gloss":"fruitful"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on war","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Nacht","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Nacht","lemma":"Nacht","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"night"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"die-versuchung-s3-l3","source":"und in immer bunterem Gesprenkel","translation":"and in ever gaudier speckling","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"immer bunterem","title":"immer with a comparative","body":"immer placed before a comparative adjective means 'ever, increasingly': immer bunter is 'ever more colourful'. bunterem takes the dative ending because it follows the preposition in. Gesprenkel, 'speckling, mottling', is a Ge- noun built from sprenkeln, 'to speckle'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"links fruchtbar (die-versuchung-s3-l2) and hingehudelt (die-versuchung-s3-l4)","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on und","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"immer","lemma":"immer","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on bunterem","gloss":"ever"},{"surface":"bunterem","lemma":"bunter","morphology":"adjective, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gesprenkel","gloss":"gaudier"},{"surface":"Gesprenkel","lemma":"Gesprenkel","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"speckling"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"die-versuchung-s3-l4","source":"hingehudelt und verhundertfacht.","translation":"botched out and multiplied a hundredfold.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"verhundertfacht","title":"A hundredfold, verb form","body":"verhundertfachen means 'to multiply a hundredfold', built from hundert plus the multiplying suffix -fach, the same pattern as verdoppeln, 'to double'. hinhudeln is a colloquial verb meaning 'to dash off carelessly, to botch'. Both appear here as past participles depending on war two lines above."}],"words":[{"surface":"hingehudelt","lemma":"hinhudeln","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on war in die-versuchung-s3-l2","gloss":"botched out"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on hingehudelt","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"verhundertfacht","lemma":"verhundertfachen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on und","gloss":"multiplied a hundredfold"}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"die-versuchung-s3-l5","source":"Aus dem Ganzen ward ein Trank gemacht:","translation":"Out of the whole a draught was brewed:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s3-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"ward","title":"An old form of wurde","body":"ward is an older simple-past form of werden, 'to become', equivalent to modern wurde. ward gemacht is passive, 'was made'. aus dem Ganzen means 'out of the whole (of it)', and ein Trank is 'a draught, a potion', the accusative object made from the whole swarm."}],"words":[{"surface":"Aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on gemacht","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Ganzen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Ganzen","lemma":"Ganze","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Aus","gloss":"whole"},{"surface":"ward","lemma":"werden","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Trank","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Trank","lemma":"Trank","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of ward","gloss":"draught"},{"surface":"gemacht","lemma":"machen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on ward","gloss":"brewed"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"die-versuchung-s3-l6","source":"seine Hände griffen lauter Henkel,","translation":"his hands closed on nothing but handles,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s3-l6.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"lauter","title":"Nothing but, not louder","body":"Uninflected lauter placed before a noun means 'nothing but, sheer, all', not 'louder', which would be an inflected comparative of laut. griffen lauter Henkel is 'closed on nothing but handles'. der Henkel is the handle of a jug or cup, the accusative object of griffen."}],"words":[{"surface":"seine","lemma":"sein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Hände","gloss":"his"},{"surface":"Hände","lemma":"Hand","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"subject of griffen","gloss":"hands"},{"surface":"griffen","lemma":"greifen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"closed on"},{"surface":"lauter","lemma":"lauter","morphology":"determiner","role":"depends on Henkel","gloss":"nothing but"},{"surface":"Henkel","lemma":"Henkel","morphology":"noun, accusative, plural","role":"object of griffen","gloss":"handles"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"die-versuchung-s3-l7","source":"und der Schatten schob sich auf wie Schenkel","translation":"and the shadow heaved open like thighs","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s3-l7.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"schob sich auf","title":"Separable verb split across sich","body":"sich aufschieben means 'to push, heave itself open'. The separable prefix auf lands at the end of the clause, after the reflexive sich: der Schatten schob sich auf, 'the shadow heaved itself open'. schob is the simple past of schieben, 'to shove'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on schob","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Schatten","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Schatten","lemma":"Schatten","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of schob","gloss":"shadow"},{"surface":"schob","lemma":"schieben","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"heaved"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on schob","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on schob","gloss":"open"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Schenkel","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"Schenkel","lemma":"Schenkel","morphology":"noun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"thighs"}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"die-versuchung-s3-l8","source":"warm und zu Umarmungen erwacht–.","translation":"warm and woken to embraces–.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s3-l8.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"zu Umarmungen erwacht","title":"erwachen zu plus dative","body":"erwachen zu etwas means 'to wake to, to awaken into something'. zu Umarmungen erwacht is 'awakened to embraces', with the dative plural Umarmungen following zu. erwacht here is a past participle depending on Schenkel in the line before."}],"words":[{"surface":"warm","lemma":"warm","morphology":"adjective, nominative, plural","role":"depends on Schenkel in die-versuchung-s3-l7","gloss":"warm"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on warm","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on und","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"Umarmungen","lemma":"Umarmung","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on zu","gloss":"embraces"},{"surface":"erwacht–.","lemma":"erwachen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on Schenkel in die-versuchung-s3-l7","gloss":"woken"}]},{"number":17,"label":"17","id":"die-versuchung-s4-l1","source":"Und da schrie er nach dem Engel, schrie:","translation":"And then he cried out for the angel, cried:","stanza":4,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s4-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"schrie nach dem Engel","title":"schreien nach plus dative","body":"schreien nach etwas or jemandem means 'to cry out for someone or something', and takes nach plus dative, here nach dem Engel, 'for the angel'. schrie is the simple past of schreien. da here means 'then, at that moment', not 'there'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on schrie","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"da","lemma":"da","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on schrie","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"schrie","lemma":"schreien","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"cried out"},{"surface":"er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on schrie","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"nach","lemma":"nach","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on schrie","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Engel","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Engel","lemma":"Engel","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on nach","gloss":"angel"},{"surface":"schrie","lemma":"schreien","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"restates schrie (die-versuchung-s4-l1-w3)","gloss":"cried"}]},{"number":18,"label":"18","id":"die-versuchung-s4-l2","source":"und der Engel kam in seinem Schein","translation":"and the angel came in its radiance","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s4-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"in seinem Schein","title":"der Schein, a glow","body":"der Schein means 'shine, gleam, radiance', from scheinen, 'to shine'. in seinem Schein is 'in its glow', dative after in. The same noun can also mean 'appearance, semblance', but the parses show it governed by kam, 'came', naming the angel's literal light."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on kam","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Engel","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Engel","lemma":"Engel","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of kam","gloss":"angel"},{"surface":"kam","lemma":"kommen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"came"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on kam","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"seinem","lemma":"sein","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Schein","gloss":"its"},{"surface":"Schein","lemma":"Schein","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"radiance"}]},{"number":19,"label":"19","id":"die-versuchung-s4-l3","source":"und war da: und jagte sie","translation":"and was there: and drove them","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s4-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"jagte sie","title":"jagen, to drive or chase","body":"jagen means 'to hunt, chase, drive'. jagte sie takes sie, 'them', as its accusative object, referring to the swarm of visions named earlier. Its directional completion, hinein, 'into', arrives in the next line as a separable prefix."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on war","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"war","lemma":"sein","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"was"},{"surface":"da","lemma":"da","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on war","gloss":"there"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on war","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"jagte","lemma":"jagen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"drove"},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural","role":"object of jagte","gloss":"them"}]},{"number":20,"label":"20","id":"die-versuchung-s4-l4","source":"wieder in den Heiligen hinein,","translation":"back into the holy man again,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s4-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"in den Heiligen hinein","title":"hinein completes the verb","body":"hinein means 'into there, inward', and completes jagte from the line before as its separable prefix: jagte hinein, 'drove in'. den Heiligen, 'the holy man', is an accusative nominalized adjective marking the goal of that motion, in den Heiligen hinein, 'back into the holy man'."}],"words":[{"surface":"wieder","lemma":"wieder","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on in","gloss":"back"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Heiligen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Heiligen","lemma":"Heilige","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"holy man"},{"surface":"hinein","lemma":"hinein","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on in","gloss":"in"}]},{"number":21,"label":"21","id":"die-versuchung-s5-l1","source":"daß er mit Geteufel und Getier","translation":"so that with deviltry and beasts","stanza":5,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s5-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Geteufel und Getier","title":"Two Ge- collective nouns","body":"das Getier is a standard collective for 'creatures, beasts' as a mass. das Geteufel is coined on the same pattern from Teufel, 'devil', meaning 'a mass of devilry'. Both are dative after mit, and the daß clause states what the angel intends: that he continue struggling amid them."}],"words":[{"surface":"daß","lemma":"daß","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on weiterringe in die-versuchung-s5-l2","gloss":"so that"},{"surface":"er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of weiterringe in die-versuchung-s5-l2","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on weiterringe in die-versuchung-s5-l2","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"Geteufel","lemma":"Geteufel","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"deviltry"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on Geteufel","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"Getier","lemma":"Getier","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"beasts"}]},{"number":22,"label":"22","id":"die-versuchung-s5-l2","source":"in sich weiterringe wie seit Jahren","translation":"he might go on wrestling within himself as for years,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s5-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"weiterringe","title":"Subjunctive after daß of purpose","body":"weiterringe is present subjunctive (Konjunktiv I) of the separable verb weiterringen, 'to keep wrestling, struggle on'. After the purpose clause introduced by daß, German uses the subjunctive for the intended result: 'so that he might go on wrestling'. in sich means 'within himself'."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on weiterringe","gloss":"within"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on in","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"weiterringe","lemma":"weiterringen","morphology":"verb, present, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"go on wrestling"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on seit","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"seit","lemma":"seit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"Jahren","lemma":"Jahr","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on seit","gloss":"years"}]},{"number":23,"label":"23","id":"die-versuchung-s5-l3","source":"und sich Gott, den lange noch nicht klaren,","translation":"and distil for himself God, not yet clear for a long while,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s5-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"den lange noch nicht klaren","title":"Nominalized adjective as appositive","body":"den lange noch nicht klaren is an accusative phrase in apposition to Gott: 'God, the one not yet clear'. klar, 'clear', is nominalized with the article den. lange noch nicht means 'still not, for a long time'. sich, 'for himself', belongs to destillier in the next line."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"connects weiterringe (die-versuchung-s5-l2) and destillier (die-versuchung-s5-l4)","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on destillier in die-versuchung-s5-l4","gloss":"for himself"},{"surface":"Gott","lemma":"Gott","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on destillier in die-versuchung-s5-l4","gloss":"God"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on klaren","gloss":"him"},{"surface":"lange","lemma":"lange","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on nicht","gloss":"long"},{"surface":"noch","lemma":"noch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on nicht","gloss":"yet"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on klaren","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"klaren","lemma":"klar","morphology":"adjective, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Gott","gloss":"clear"}]},{"number":24,"label":"24","id":"die-versuchung-s5-l4","source":"innen aus dem Jäsen destillier.","translation":"out of the ferment within.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/die-versuchung-s5-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"aus dem Jäsen destillier","title":"A nominalized verb and a clipped form","body":"das Jäsen is jäsen or gären, 'to ferment', used as a noun: 'the fermenting'. destillier is destilliere, 'distil', with its final -e dropped to rhyme with Getier. aus dem Jäsen destillier means 'might distil out of the ferment', continuing the subjunctive from weiterringe."}],"words":[{"surface":"innen","lemma":"innen","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on destillier","gloss":"within"},{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on destillier","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Jäsen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Jäsen","lemma":"Jäsen","morphology":"noun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"ferment"},{"surface":"destillier","lemma":"destillieren","morphology":"verb, present, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"might distil"}]}]}