{"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":"schlafmohn","title":{"source":"Schlafmohn","translated":"Opium Poppy"},"section":"New Poems: The Other Part","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/schlafmohn","lines":12},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/die-sonnenuhr","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/die-flamingos","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":"schlafmohn-s1-l1","source":"Abseits im Garten blüht der böse Schlaf,","translation":"Off to one side in the garden the evil sleep blooms,","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"der Schlaf","title":"The poppy split from its name","body":"The title Schlafmohn, 'sleep-poppy', names the opium poppy. The opening line splits the compound: der böse Schlaf, 'the evil sleep', is the flower itself, named for the narcotic stupor it gives. abseits means 'off to the side, apart'."}],"words":[{"surface":"Abseits","lemma":"abseits","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on blüht","gloss":"off to one side"},{"surface":"im","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on blüht","gloss":"in the"},{"surface":"Garten","lemma":"Garten","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on im","gloss":"garden"},{"surface":"blüht","lemma":"blühen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"blooms"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Schlaf","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"böse","lemma":"böse","morphology":"adjective, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Schlaf","gloss":"evil"},{"surface":"Schlaf","lemma":"Schlaf","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on blüht","gloss":"sleep"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"schlafmohn-s1-l2","source":"in welchem die, die heimlich eingedrungen,","translation":"in which those who had secretly broken in","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"die heimlich eingedrungen","title":"Separable verb, perfect participle","body":"eindringen, 'to penetrate, intrude, break in', is separable, ein- plus dringen. eingedrungen is its past participle, with the auxiliary sind understood: die heimlich eingedrungen [sind] means 'those who had secretly intruded'. heimlich means 'secretly'."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on fanden","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"welchem","lemma":"welcher","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on fanden","gloss":"those"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on eingedrungen","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"heimlich","lemma":"heimlich","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on eingedrungen","gloss":"secretly"},{"surface":"eingedrungen","lemma":"eindringen","morphology":"verb, participle","role":"depends on die","gloss":"broken in"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"schlafmohn-s1-l3","source":"die Liebe fanden junger Spiegelungen,","translation":"found the love of young reflections,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"die Liebe … junger Spiegelungen","title":"Genitive of belonging","body":"die Spiegelung is a 'reflection, mirroring', from spiegeln, 'to mirror'; the genitive plural junger Spiegelungen, 'of young reflections', hangs on die Liebe. Read as fanden die Liebe junger Spiegelungen, 'found the love of young reflections'; word order is fluid in verse."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Liebe","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Liebe","lemma":"Liebe","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on fanden","gloss":"love"},{"surface":"fanden","lemma":"finden","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"found"},{"surface":"junger","lemma":"jung","morphology":"adjective, genitive, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Spiegelungen","gloss":"young"},{"surface":"Spiegelungen","lemma":"Spiegelung","morphology":"noun, genitive, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Liebe","gloss":"reflections"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"schlafmohn-s1-l4","source":"die willig waren, offen und konkav,","translation":"which were willing, open and concave,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"offen und konkav","title":"Concave, hollowed inward","body":"willig, 'willing, compliant', offen, 'open', and konkav, 'concave, hollowed inward', all describe die Spiegelungen, reflections that yield, open out, and curve inward like a hollow mirror. The Latinate konkav lends a cool, precise tone."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on waren","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"willig","lemma":"willig","morphology":"adjective, predicate","role":"depends on waren","gloss":"willing"},{"surface":"waren","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"were"},{"surface":"offen","lemma":"offen","morphology":"adjective, predicate","role":"depends on waren","gloss":"open"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on offen","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"konkav","lemma":"konkav","morphology":"adjective, predicate","role":"depends on und","gloss":"concave"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"schlafmohn-s2-l1","source":"und Träume, die mit aufgeregten Masken","translation":"and dreams that with agitated masks","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"mit aufgeregten Masken","title":"Agitated, worked up","body":"aufgeregt means 'excited, agitated, worked up', from aufregen, 'to excite, stir up'; die Maske is a theatrical 'mask'. mit aufgeregten Masken takes the dative plural after mit and describes the Träume, 'dreams', that auftraten in the next line."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on fanden","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"Träume","lemma":"Traum","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on fanden","gloss":"dreams"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on auftraten","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on auftraten","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"aufgeregten","lemma":"aufgeregt","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Masken","gloss":"agitated"},{"surface":"Masken","lemma":"Maske","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"masks"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"schlafmohn-s2-l2","source":"auftraten, riesiger durch die Kothurne–:","translation":"made their entrance, made huger by the buskins—:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"auftraten","title":"To make an entrance","body":"auftreten, 'to appear, step on stage, make an entrance', is separable, auf- plus treten, 'to step'; auftraten is its simple past plural. It governs Träume from the line above. riesiger is the comparative of riesig, 'gigantic', 'made even huger'."}],"words":[{"surface":"auftraten","lemma":"auftreten","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"made their entrance"},{"surface":"riesiger","lemma":"riesig","morphology":"adverb, comparative","role":"depends on auftraten","gloss":"huger"},{"surface":"durch","lemma":"durch","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on riesiger","gloss":"by"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Kothurne–","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Kothurne–","lemma":"Kothurn","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on durch","gloss":"buskins"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"schlafmohn-s2-l3","source":"das alles stockt in diesen oben flasken","translation":"all of that stalls in these, slack at the top,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"das alles stockt","title":"To halt, congeal","body":"das alles, 'all of that', gathers everything named before it as the subject. stocken means 'to come to a halt, stall, congeal', as blood or speech can stocken. in diesen, 'in these', dative plural, points ahead to the stems named in the next line."},{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"oben flasken","title":"A rare dialect adjective","body":"flask, here inflected flasken, is a rare, dialectal adjective meaning 'slack, limp, flabby', close to schlaff. oben flasken ... Stengeln means 'stems slack at the top', the poppy's stalks drooping under the weight of the swelling seed-head."}],"words":[{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on alles","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"alles","lemma":"alles","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on stockt","gloss":"all"},{"surface":"stockt","lemma":"stocken","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"stalls"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on stockt","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"diesen","lemma":"dieser","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Stengeln","gloss":"these"},{"surface":"oben","lemma":"oben","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on flasken","gloss":"at the top"},{"surface":"flasken","lemma":"flasken","morphology":"adjective, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Stengeln","gloss":"slack","note":"Rare/dialectal Rilke word, roughly 'slack, flabby' — describes the drooping tops of the poppy stems; not a standard dictionary adjective."}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"schlafmohn-s2-l4","source":"weichlichen Stengeln, die die Samenurne","translation":"soft stems, which the seed-urn","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"die Samenurne","title":"A coined compound noun","body":"Samenurne joins Samen, 'seed', and Urne, 'urn': the poppy's round, capped seed-capsule figured as an urn. weichlich, 'soft, weakly', describes the dative plural Stengeln, 'stems', that carry it. The relative die ... die opens a clause completed by heben, 'raise'."}],"words":[{"surface":"weichlichen","lemma":"weichlich","morphology":"adjective, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Stengeln","gloss":"soft"},{"surface":"Stengeln","lemma":"Stengel","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on in","gloss":"stems"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on heben","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Samenurne","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Samenurne","lemma":"Samenurne","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on heben","gloss":"seed-urn"}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"schlafmohn-s3-l1","source":"(nachdem sie lang, die Knospe abwärts tragend","translation":"(after they had long, bearing the bud downward,","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"nachdem sie lang … meinten","title":"Subordinate after-clause","body":"nachdem, 'after', is a subordinating conjunction, so it sends its finite verb, meinten, 'thought', to the end of the clause, reached only on the next line. abwärts means 'downward'; tragend, 'bearing', is the present participle of tragen, 'to carry'."}],"words":[{"surface":"nachdem","lemma":"nachdem","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on meinten","gloss":"after"},{"surface":"sie","lemma":"sie","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on meinten","gloss":"they"},{"surface":"lang","lemma":"lang","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on tragend","gloss":"long"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Knospe","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Knospe","lemma":"Knospe","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on tragend","gloss":"bud"},{"surface":"abwärts","lemma":"abwärts","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on tragend","gloss":"downward"},{"surface":"tragend","lemma":"tragen","morphology":"adverb (present participle)","role":"depends on meinten","gloss":"bearing"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"schlafmohn-s3-l2","source":"zu welken meinten) festverschlossen heben:","translation":"thought they would wilt) raise tight-shut:","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"zu welken meinten","title":"Meinen governs a zu-infinitive","body":"welken means 'to wilt, wither, fade'; zu welken meinten means 'thought they would wilt'. meinen takes a zu-infinitive to report what the stems believed of themselves, closing the nachdem-clause. festverschlossen, 'tightly shut', describes the urn as the stems raise it."}],"words":[{"surface":"zu","lemma":"zu","morphology":"particle","role":"depends on welken","gloss":"to"},{"surface":"welken","lemma":"welken","morphology":"verb, infinitive","role":"depends on meinten","gloss":"wilt"},{"surface":"meinten","lemma":"meinen","morphology":"verb, past, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the subordinate clause","gloss":"thought"},{"surface":"festverschlossen","lemma":"festverschlossen","morphology":"adjective, predicate","role":"depends on heben","gloss":"tight-shut"},{"surface":"heben","lemma":"heben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"raise"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"schlafmohn-s3-l3","source":"gefranste Kelche auseinanderschlagend,","translation":"flinging fringed calyxes apart,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"auseinanderschlagend","title":"Separable verb, to fling apart","body":"auseinanderschlagen, 'to fling apart, throw open', is separable, auseinander-, 'apart', plus schlagen, 'to beat, strike'; here it is the present participle auseinanderschlagend, describing how the stems raise the urn. gefranst means 'fringed, frayed'."}],"words":[{"surface":"gefranste","lemma":"gefranst","morphology":"adjective, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Kelche","gloss":"fringed"},{"surface":"Kelche","lemma":"Kelch","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on auseinanderschlagend","gloss":"calyxes"},{"surface":"auseinanderschlagend","lemma":"auseinanderschlagen","morphology":"adverb (present participle)","role":"depends on heben","gloss":"flinging apart"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"schlafmohn-s3-l4","source":"die fieberhaft das Mohngefäß umgeben.","translation":"which feverishly surround the poppy-vessel.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlafmohn-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"das Mohngefäß umgeben","title":"Compound noun and its verb","body":"Mohngefäß joins Mohn, 'poppy', and Gefäß, 'vessel', naming the poppy's seed-capsule once more. umgeben, 'to surround, encircle', governs das Mohngefäß as its object: the fringed calyxes 'feverishly surround the poppy-vessel'. fieberhaft means 'feverish, frantic'."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, plural","role":"depends on umgeben","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"fieberhaft","lemma":"fieberhaft","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on umgeben","gloss":"feverishly"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Mohngefäß","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Mohngefäß","lemma":"Mohngefäß","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on umgeben","gloss":"poppy-vessel"},{"surface":"umgeben","lemma":"umgeben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"surround"}]}]}