{"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":"oestliches-taglied","title":{"source":"Östliches Taglied","translated":"Eastern Aubade"},"section":"New Poems","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/oestliches-taglied","lines":17},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/opfer","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/abisag","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":"oestliches-taglied-s1-l1","source":"Ist dieses Bette nicht wie eine Küste,","translation":"Is this bed not like a coastline,","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Bette","title":"An older dative-style form","body":"Das Bett means 'bed'. Bette is an older, poetic form with a final -e, once common in elevated verse and felt as old-fashioned now. This line opens the poem with that rounder, more lyrical form rather than the plain Bett."}],"words":[{"surface":"Ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"Is"},{"surface":"dieses","lemma":"dieser","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Bette","gloss":"this"},{"surface":"Bette","lemma":"Bett","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Ist","gloss":"bed","note":"Archaic poetic nominative ending -e on 'Bett', common in Rilke's verse."},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on Ist","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Ist","gloss":"like"},{"surface":"eine","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Küste","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Küste","lemma":"Küste","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"coastline"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"oestliches-taglied-s1-l2","source":"ein Küstenstreifen nur, darauf wir liegen?","translation":"only a strip of shore, on which we lie?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"darauf","title":"A pronoun fused with a preposition","body":"Darauf fuses da-, standing for a thing, with the preposition auf, 'on', giving 'on which, on it'. German uses these da- compounds instead of preposition plus pronoun when referring to a thing. Here it points back to Küstenstreifen, 'strip of shore'."}],"words":[{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Küstenstreifen","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Küstenstreifen","lemma":"Küstenstreifen","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Ist (oestliches-taglied-s1-l1), elided copula","gloss":"strip of shore"},{"surface":"nur","lemma":"nur","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on Küstenstreifen","gloss":"only"},{"surface":"darauf","lemma":"darauf","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on liegen","gloss":"on which"},{"surface":"wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on liegen","gloss":"we"},{"surface":"liegen","lemma":"liegen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the relative clause 'darauf wir liegen'","gloss":"lie"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"oestliches-taglied-s1-l3","source":"Nichts ist gewiß als deine hohen Brüste,","translation":"Nothing is certain but your high breasts,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"als","title":"A word meaning except","body":"After nichts, 'nothing', als means 'except, other than, but', so nichts als means 'nothing but'. In other contexts als can mean 'when', 'as', or 'than'. The line reads 'nothing is certain but your high breasts'."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"gewiß","title":"An older spelling with ß","body":"Gewiß means 'certain, sure'. It is spelled with ß in the orthography used at the time this poem was written; modern German writes gewiss, since the vowel before it is short. The word is kept here as originally printed."}],"words":[{"surface":"Nichts","lemma":"nichts","morphology":"pronoun, neuter","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"Nothing"},{"surface":"ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"gewiß","lemma":"gewiß","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"certain"},{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on gewiß","gloss":"but"},{"surface":"deine","lemma":"dein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Brüste","gloss":"your"},{"surface":"hohen","lemma":"hoch","morphology":"adjective, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Brüste","gloss":"high"},{"surface":"Brüste","lemma":"Brust","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on als","gloss":"breasts"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"oestliches-taglied-s1-l4","source":"die mein Gefühl in Schwindeln überstiegen.","translation":"which my senses, reeling, climbed beyond.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"überstiegen","title":"An inseparable verb meaning surpass","body":"Übersteigen means literally 'to climb over' and figuratively 'to surpass, to exceed'. Here it is the simple past of an inseparable verb, with the stress on the stem. Its subject, die, meaning the breasts, overwhelms mein Gefühl, 'my senses'."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural","role":"depends on überstiegen, refers to Brüste","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"mein","lemma":"mein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gefühl","gloss":"my"},{"surface":"Gefühl","lemma":"Gefühl","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of überstiegen","gloss":"senses"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on überstiegen","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"Schwindeln","lemma":"Schwindel","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on in","gloss":"dizzy spells"},{"surface":"überstiegen","lemma":"übersteigen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"main verb of the sentence (participial; auxiliary 'haben' elided)","gloss":"climbed beyond","note":"Past participle of 'übersteigen' used as the clause's verb with the auxiliary omitted, a compressed poetic construction."}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"oestliches-taglied-s2-l1","source":"Denn diese Nacht, in der so vieles schrie,","translation":"For this night, in which so much cried out,","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Denn","title":"A coordinating conjunction, not weil","body":"denn is a coordinating conjunction meaning 'for, because'. Unlike weil, it does not send its verb to the end of the clause, so the relative clause that follows, in der so vieles schrie, keeps ordinary word order."}],"words":[{"surface":"Denn","lemma":"denn","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on schrie","gloss":"For"},{"surface":"diese","lemma":"dieser","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Nacht","gloss":"this"},{"surface":"Nacht","lemma":"Nacht","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"subject of ist (oestliches-taglied-s2-l3)","gloss":"night"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on schrie","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on vieles","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"vieles","lemma":"viele","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on schrie","gloss":"much"},{"surface":"schrie","lemma":"schreien","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the relative clause 'in der so vieles schrie'","gloss":"cried out"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"oestliches-taglied-s2-l2","source":"in der sich Tiere rufen und zerreißen,","translation":"in which animals call to and tear at each other,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"sich rufen und zerreißen","title":"Sich used to mean each other","body":"The reflexive pronoun sich is read here reciprocally: Tiere rufen und zerreißen sich means animals 'call to and tear at one another'. Zerreißen, 'to tear apart', combines reißen, 'to tear', with the intensifying prefix zer-. Sich governs both verbs at once."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on rufen","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on rufen, reciprocal, shared with zerreißen","gloss":"each other"},{"surface":"Tiere","lemma":"Tier","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on rufen","gloss":"animals"},{"surface":"rufen","lemma":"rufen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the relative clause","gloss":"call"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on rufen","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"zerreißen","lemma":"zerreißen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"depends on und, coordinated with rufen","gloss":"tear at"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"oestliches-taglied-s2-l3","source":"ist sie uns nicht entsetzlich fremd? Und wie:","translation":"is it not dreadfully strange to us? And how strange:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"uns … fremd","title":"Fremd takes the dative","body":"Fremd, 'strange, foreign', takes a dative for the person to whom something seems strange: sie ist uns fremd means 'it is strange to us'. Sie refers back to diese Nacht, 'this night'. Entsetzlich, 'dreadfully', intensifies the strangeness."}],"words":[{"surface":"ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on ist, refers to Nacht","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"uns","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"to us"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"entsetzlich","lemma":"entsetzlich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on fremd","gloss":"dreadfully"},{"surface":"fremd","lemma":"fremd","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"strange"},{"surface":"Und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on wie","gloss":"And"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"adverb","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"how","note":"'Und wie' is an idiom meaning 'and how!' (emphatic agreement), pivoting into the description that follows."}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"oestliches-taglied-s2-l4","source":"was draußen langsam anhebt, Tag geheißen,","translation":"what slowly lifts up outside, called day,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"anhebt","title":"A separable verb for beginning","body":"Anheben is a separable verb, here hebt an, meaning 'to begin, to set in' and, in older usage, 'to rise, to lift up'. Was draußen langsam anhebt, 'what slowly begins outside', is the subject of the following line."},{"kind":"grammar","term":"geheißen","title":"Past participle of heissen","body":"Heißen means 'to be called, to be named'. Tag geheißen is a compressed participial phrase meaning 'called day', naming the thing rising outside that people call Tag. Geheißen stands in apposition to was."}],"words":[{"surface":"was","lemma":"was","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on anhebt","gloss":"what"},{"surface":"draußen","lemma":"draußen","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on anhebt","gloss":"outside"},{"surface":"langsam","lemma":"langsam","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on anhebt","gloss":"slowly"},{"surface":"anhebt","lemma":"anheben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"lifts up"},{"surface":"Tag","lemma":"Tag","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on geheißen","gloss":"day"},{"surface":"geheißen","lemma":"heißen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on was, in apposition","gloss":"called"}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"oestliches-taglied-s2-l5","source":"ist das uns denn verständlicher als sie?","translation":"is that, then, any more intelligible to us than it?","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s2-l5.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"verständlicher als sie","title":"Comparative followed by als","body":"Verständlicher is the comparative of verständlich, 'comprehensible', and after a comparative als means 'than': 'more intelligible than it'. Sie again refers to die Nacht, 'the night'. The particle denn here means 'then, after all'."}],"words":[{"surface":"ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"uns","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on verständlicher","gloss":"to us"},{"surface":"denn","lemma":"denn","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"verständlicher","lemma":"verständlich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"more intelligible"},{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on verständlicher","gloss":"than"},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on als, refers to Nacht","gloss":"it"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"oestliches-taglied-s3-l1","source":"Man müßte so sich ineinanderlegen","translation":"One would have to lay oneself so into the other","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"müßte","title":"Subjunctive stating a necessity","body":"Müßte, the older spelling of müsste, is the Konjunktiv II of müssen, 'must', meaning 'would have to'. With the impersonal man, 'one', it states a felt necessity rather than a fact: 'one would have to'."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"ineinanderlegen","title":"A separable compound verb","body":"Ineinanderlegen combines legen, 'to lay', with ineinander, 'into one another'. Used reflexively, sich ineinanderlegen means 'to fold into each other'. So, 'so, thus', points forward to a comparison in the next line."}],"words":[{"surface":"Man","lemma":"man","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"depends on müßte","gloss":"One"},{"surface":"müßte","lemma":"müssen","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"would have to"},{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on müßte","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on ineinanderlegen","gloss":"oneself"},{"surface":"ineinanderlegen","lemma":"ineinanderlegen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on müßte","gloss":"lay into one another"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"oestliches-taglied-s3-l2","source":"wie Blütenblätter um die Staubgefäße:","translation":"as petals fold around the stamens:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"Blütenblätter / Staubgefäße","title":"Compound nouns from botany","body":"Das Blütenblatt, plural Blütenblätter, means 'petal', literally 'bloom leaf'. Das Staubgefäß, plural Staubgefäße, means 'stamen', literally 'dust vessel'. Um, 'around', takes the accusative here, giving 'petals around the stamens'."}],"words":[{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Blütenblätter","gloss":"as"},{"surface":"Blütenblätter","lemma":"Blütenblatt","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"petals"},{"surface":"um","lemma":"um","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on Blütenblätter","gloss":"around"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on Staubgefäße","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Staubgefäße","lemma":"Staubgefäß","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, plural","role":"depends on um","gloss":"stamens"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"oestliches-taglied-s3-l3","source":"so sehr ist überall das Ungemäße","translation":"so everywhere is the immeasurable","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"das Ungemäße","title":"An adjective made into a noun","body":"Gemäß means 'fitting, in proportion'; ungemäß negates it, meaning 'disproportionate, beyond measure'. Capitalized as das Ungemäße, the adjective becomes a noun, 'the immeasurable'. Überall means 'everywhere'."}],"words":[{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on sehr","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"sehr","lemma":"sehr","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"much"},{"surface":"ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"überall","lemma":"überall","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"everywhere"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Ungemäße","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Ungemäße","lemma":"Ungemäße","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"immeasurable"}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"oestliches-taglied-s3-l4","source":"und häuft sich an und stürzt sich uns entgegen.","translation":"and heaps itself up and hurls itself toward us.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"häuft sich an","title":"Two reflexive separable verbs","body":"Sich anhäufen means 'to pile up, to accumulate', appearing here as häuft sich an. Sich entgegenstürzen, with the dative, means 'to hurl itself toward', giving stürzt sich uns entgegen, where uns means 'toward us'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on häuft","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"häuft","lemma":"häufen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the clause, subject 'das Ungemäße' (previous segment)","gloss":"heaps up"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on häuft","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"an","lemma":"an","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on häuft","gloss":"up"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on häuft","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"stürzt","lemma":"stürzen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"second main verb, coordinated with häuft","gloss":"hurls"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on stürzt","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"uns","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, dative, plural","role":"depends on stürzt","gloss":"toward us"},{"surface":"entgegen","lemma":"entgegen","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on stürzt","gloss":"toward"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"oestliches-taglied-s4-l1","source":"Doch während wir uns aneinanderdrücken,","translation":"Yet while we press ourselves against each other,","stanza":4,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s4-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Doch während","title":"Doch marks a turn, während delays the verb","body":"Doch, 'yet', marks a turn in the poem. Während, 'while', is a subordinating conjunction, so its clause sends the verb to the end: während wir uns... drücken. Sich aneinanderdrücken is a separable reflexive verb meaning 'to press against one another'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Doch","lemma":"doch","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on aneinanderdrücken","gloss":"Yet"},{"surface":"während","lemma":"während","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on aneinanderdrücken","gloss":"while"},{"surface":"wir","lemma":"wir","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on aneinanderdrücken","gloss":"we"},{"surface":"uns","lemma":"uns","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on aneinanderdrücken","gloss":"ourselves"},{"surface":"aneinanderdrücken","lemma":"aneinanderdrücken","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, first-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"press together"}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"oestliches-taglied-s4-l2","source":"um nicht zu sehen, wie es ringsum naht,","translation":"so as not to see how it draws near all around,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s4-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"um nicht zu sehen","title":"Um zu expresses purpose","body":"Um plus zu with an infinitive expresses purpose, 'in order to'; adding nicht gives 'so as not to'. Um nicht zu sehen means 'in order not to see'. Ringsum means 'all around', and naht, from nahen, means 'draws near'."}],"words":[{"surface":"um","lemma":"um","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on sehen","gloss":"so as"},{"surface":"nicht","lemma":"nicht","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on sehen","gloss":"not"},{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on sehen","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"sehen","lemma":"sehen","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"see"},{"surface":"wie","lemma":"wie","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on naht","gloss":"how"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on naht","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"ringsum","lemma":"ringsum","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on naht","gloss":"all around"},{"surface":"naht","lemma":"nahen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the clause introduced by wie","gloss":"draws near"}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"oestliches-taglied-s4-l3","source":"kann es aus dir, kann es aus mir sich zücken:","translation":"it can dart out of you, can dart out of me:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s4-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"sich zücken","title":"A verb for drawing a blade","body":"Zücken normally means 'to draw, to whip out' a weapon, as in das Schwert zücken, 'to draw the sword'. Used reflexively here, sich zücken pictures something flashing out suddenly. Aus dir, aus mir means 'out of you, out of me', with aus taking the dative."}],"words":[{"surface":"kann","lemma":"können","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the first clause, shares infinitive zücken with the second","gloss":"can"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on kann (first)","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on zücken","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"dir","lemma":"dir","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"depends on aus (first)","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"kann","lemma":"können","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"can"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on kann (second)","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on zücken","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"mir","lemma":"mir","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"depends on aus (second)","gloss":"me"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on zücken","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"zücken","lemma":"zücken","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on kann (second)","gloss":"dart"}]},{"number":17,"label":"17","id":"oestliches-taglied-s4-l4","source":"denn unsre Seelen leben von Verrat.","translation":"for our souls live on betrayal.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/oestliches-taglied-s4-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"leben von","title":"A verb phrase meaning to live on","body":"Von etwas leben means 'to live on something, to subsist on it'; von governs the dative Verrat, 'betrayal'. The closing line states that the souls in question live on betrayal rather than on anything outside them."}],"words":[{"surface":"denn","lemma":"denn","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on leben","gloss":"for"},{"surface":"unsre","lemma":"unser","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Seelen","gloss":"our"},{"surface":"Seelen","lemma":"Seele","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on leben","gloss":"souls"},{"surface":"leben","lemma":"leben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"live"},{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on leben","gloss":"on"},{"surface":"Verrat","lemma":"Verrat","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"betrayal"}]}]}