{"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":"schlangenbeschwoerung","title":{"source":"Schlangenbeschwörung","translated":"Snake Charming"},"section":"New Poems: The Other Part","summary":null,"url":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung","lines":20},"previous":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/die-gruppe","next":"https://1732studios.com/books/rilke/schwarze-katze","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":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s1-l1","source":"Wenn auf dem Markt, sich wiegend, der Beschwörer","translation":"When in the marketplace, swaying, the charmer","stanza":1,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s1-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"der Beschwörer","title":"The one who casts the spell","body":"der Beschwörer is an agent noun from beschwören, 'to conjure, invoke, charm', itself built on schwören, 'to swear'. It names the one who casts the spell, here the snake-charmer, and gives the poem its title, Schlangenbeschwörung, 'snake-charming'."},{"kind":"grammar","term":"sich wiegend","title":"Reflexive present participle","body":"wiegen here is used reflexively, sich wiegen, 'to sway, to rock oneself'. The present participle sich wiegend works as an adverbial phrase set off by commas, describing how the charmer moves."}],"words":[{"surface":"Wenn","lemma":"wenn","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on pfeift","gloss":"when"},{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on pfeift","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Markt","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Markt","lemma":"Markt","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"marketplace"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on wiegend","gloss":"himself"},{"surface":"wiegend","lemma":"wiegen","morphology":"verb, present participle","role":"depends on Beschwörer","gloss":"swaying"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Beschwörer","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Beschwörer","lemma":"Beschwörer","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on pfeift","gloss":"charmer"}]},{"number":2,"label":"2","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s1-l2","source":"die Kürbisflöte pfeift, die reizt und lullt,","translation":"pipes the gourd-flute that teases and lulls,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s1-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"die Kürbisflöte","title":"A compound noun for the pipe","body":"die Kürbisflöte joins Kürbis, 'gourd, pumpkin', with Flöte, 'flute'. It names the snake-charmer's reed pipe with its gourd wind-chamber. German builds such single-word compounds where English needs a phrase."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Kürbisflöte","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Kürbisflöte","lemma":"Kürbisflöte","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on pfeift","gloss":"gourd-flute"},{"surface":"pfeift","lemma":"pfeifen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"pipes"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on reizt","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"reizt","lemma":"reizen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on Kürbisflöte","gloss":"teases"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on reizt","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"lullt","lemma":"lullen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"lulls"}]},{"number":3,"label":"3","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s1-l3","source":"so kann es sein, daß er sich einen Hörer","translation":"then it may be that he draws himself a listener","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s1-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"daß","title":"The older spelling of dass","body":"daß, 'that', is the pre-1996 spelling, kept here as Rilke printed it; modern orthography writes dass. It introduces a subordinate clause, so the conjugated verb is pushed to the end, completed two lines later by herüberlockt."}],"words":[{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on kann","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"kann","lemma":"können","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"may"},{"surface":"es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on kann","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"sein","lemma":"sein","morphology":"auxiliary verb, infinitive","role":"depends on kann","gloss":"be"},{"surface":"daß","lemma":"daß","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on herüberlockt","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"er","lemma":"er","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on herüberlockt","gloss":"he"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on herüberlockt","gloss":"to himself"},{"surface":"einen","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Hörer","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Hörer","lemma":"Hörer","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on herüberlockt","gloss":"listener"}]},{"number":4,"label":"4","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s1-l4","source":"herüberlockt, der ganz aus dem Tumult","translation":"over toward him, one wholly out of the tumult","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s1-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"herüberlockt","title":"Separable verb at clause end","body":"locken means 'to lure, to entice'; the prefix herüber, 'over here, across toward the speaker', gives herüberlocken, 'to lure over here'. As the verb of the daß-clause it lands at the end, completing daß er sich einen Hörer herüberlockt, 'that he lures a listener over toward himself'."}],"words":[{"surface":"herüberlockt","lemma":"herüberlocken","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on daß","gloss":"lures over"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on eintritt","gloss":"who"},{"surface":"ganz","lemma":"ganz","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"wholly"},{"surface":"aus","lemma":"aus","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on eintritt","gloss":"out of"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Tumult","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Tumult","lemma":"Tumult","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on aus","gloss":"tumult"}]},{"number":5,"label":"5","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s2-l1","source":"der Buden eintritt in den Kreis der Pfeife,","translation":"of the stalls, steps into the circle of the pipe,","stanza":2,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s2-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"der Buden","title":"Genitive plural across a line break","body":"die Bude, 'stall, booth', appears here as the genitive plural der Buden, completing aus dem Tumult der Buden, 'out of the tumult of the stalls', from the previous line. Rilke splits the noun phrase across the stanza break."}],"words":[{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, genitive, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Buden","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Buden","lemma":"Bude","morphology":"noun, genitive, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Tumult","gloss":"stalls"},{"surface":"eintritt","lemma":"eintreten","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on Hörer","gloss":"steps"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on eintritt","gloss":"into"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Kreis","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Kreis","lemma":"Kreis","morphology":"noun, accusative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"circle"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, genitive, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Pfeife","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Pfeife","lemma":"Pfeife","morphology":"noun, genitive, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Kreis","gloss":"pipe"}]},{"number":6,"label":"6","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s2-l2","source":"die will und will und will und die erreicht,","translation":"which wills and wills and wills and which achieves","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s2-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"will und will und will","title":"will repeated three times","body":"will is the third-person form of wollen, 'to want, to will'. The threefold repetition, die will und will und will, has no further grammatical function beyond coordinating three identical clauses with und, 'and'."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on will","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"will","lemma":"wollen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on Pfeife","gloss":"wills"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on will","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"will","lemma":"wollen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"wills"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on will","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"will","lemma":"wollen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"wills"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on will","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on erreicht","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"erreicht","lemma":"erreichen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on Pfeife","gloss":"achieves"}]},{"number":7,"label":"7","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s2-l3","source":"daß das Reptil in seinem Korb sich steife","translation":"that the reptile in its basket stiffen","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s2-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"sich steife","title":"Subjunctive of result","body":"erreichen, daß ... , 'to bring it about that ...', governs a subjunctive clause. steife, from sich steifen, 'to stiffen', carries the result the pipe achieves. The -e ending marks Konjunktiv I, reporting an intended effect."}],"words":[{"surface":"daß","lemma":"daß","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on steife","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Reptil","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Reptil","lemma":"Reptil","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on steife","gloss":"reptile"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on steife","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"seinem","lemma":"sein","morphology":"determiner, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Korb","gloss":"its"},{"surface":"Korb","lemma":"Korb","morphology":"noun, dative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on in","gloss":"basket"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular, reflexive","role":"depends on steife","gloss":"itself"},{"surface":"steife","lemma":"steifen","morphology":"verb, present, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"depends on daß","gloss":"stiffen"}]},{"number":8,"label":"8","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s2-l4","source":"und die das steife schmeichlerisch erweicht,","translation":"and which, flatteringly, softens the stiffened thing again,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s2-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"schmeichlerisch","title":"An adverb from schmeicheln","body":"schmeichlerisch is an adverb from schmeicheln, 'to flatter, to cajole'. das steife schmeichlerisch erweicht means 'flatteringly softens the stiffened thing'. das steife uses the adjective steif, 'stiff', as a noun, 'the stiffened thing'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on erweicht","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular, relative","role":"subject of erweicht","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on steife","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"steife","lemma":"steif","morphology":"adjective used as noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"object of erweicht","gloss":"stiffened thing","note":"'das Steife' = 'the stiff thing' — the adjective is used as a noun."},{"surface":"schmeichlerisch","lemma":"schmeichlerisch","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on erweicht","gloss":"flatteringly"},{"surface":"erweicht","lemma":"erweichen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"softens"}]},{"number":9,"label":"9","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s3-l1","source":"abwechselnd immer schwindelnder und blinder","translation":"by turns ever more dizzying and more blind","stanza":3,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s3-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"schwindelnder und blinder","title":"Comparatives with immer","body":"immer before a comparative means 'ever more, increasingly'. schwindelnder, 'more dizzying', from schwindeln, and blinder, 'more blind', both intensify in step with abwechselnd, 'by turns'."}],"words":[{"surface":"abwechselnd","lemma":"abwechselnd","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on schwindelnder","gloss":"by turns"},{"surface":"immer","lemma":"immer","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on schwindelnder","gloss":"ever"},{"surface":"schwindelnder","lemma":"schwindelnd","morphology":"adjective, comparative","role":"head of the phrase","gloss":"more dizzying"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on schwindelnder","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"blinder","lemma":"blind","morphology":"adjective, comparative","role":"depends on und","gloss":"more blind"}]},{"number":10,"label":"10","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s3-l2","source":"mit dem, was schreckt und streckt, und dem, was löst–;","translation":"with that which frightens and rears, and that which releases—;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s3-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"schreckt und streckt … löst","title":"schreckt, streckt, löst","body":"Three verbs name the snake's states: schreckt, 'startles, terrifies'; streckt, 'stretches, rears up'; löst, 'loosens, releases'. All three are third-person singular present forms depending on the relative pronoun was, 'that which'."}],"words":[{"surface":"mit","lemma":"mit","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on schwindelnder","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"was","lemma":"was","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular, relative","role":"subject of schreckt","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"schreckt","lemma":"schrecken","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the relative clause","gloss":"frightens"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on schreckt","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"streckt","lemma":"strecken","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"rears"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on mit","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"dem","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, dative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"that"},{"surface":"was","lemma":"was","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular, relative","role":"subject of löst–","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"löst–","lemma":"lösen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the relative clause","gloss":"releases"}]},{"number":11,"label":"11","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s3-l3","source":"und dann genügt ein Blick: so hat der Inder","translation":"and then one glance suffices: so the Indian","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s3-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"genügt ein Blick","title":"Impersonal sufficing","body":"genügen, 'to suffice, to be enough', takes its sufficient thing as subject: ein Blick genügt means 'a single glance is enough'. The verb-first order, und dann genügt ein Blick, throws the weight onto dann, 'then'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on genügt","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"dann","lemma":"dann","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on genügt","gloss":"then"},{"surface":"genügt","lemma":"genügen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"suffices"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Blick","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Blick","lemma":"Blick","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of genügt","gloss":"glance"},{"surface":"so","lemma":"so","morphology":"adverb","role":"depends on hat","gloss":"so"},{"surface":"hat","lemma":"haben","morphology":"auxiliary verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"auxiliary of eingeflößt (next line)","gloss":"has"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Inder","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Inder","lemma":"Inder","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of hat","gloss":"Indian"}]},{"number":12,"label":"12","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s3-l4","source":"dir eine Fremde eingeflößt,","translation":"has instilled a strangeness into you,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s3-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"eingeflößt","title":"Dative recipient of einflößen","body":"einflößen means 'to instil, to pour into, to administer'. It takes a dative for the recipient: dir ... eingeflößt means 'instilled into you'. eine Fremde, 'a strangeness', is the accusative object of the participle."}],"words":[{"surface":"dir","lemma":"dir","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"depends on eingeflößt","gloss":"into you"},{"surface":"eine","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Fremde","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Fremde","lemma":"Fremde","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"object of eingeflößt","gloss":"strangeness"},{"surface":"eingeflößt","lemma":"einflößen","morphology":"verb, past participle","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"instilled"}]},{"number":13,"label":"13","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s4-l1","source":"in der du stirbst. Es ist, als überstürze","translation":"in which you die. It is as though a burning","stanza":4,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s4-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"als überstürze","title":"als with subjunctive, 'as though'","body":"Es ist, als ... , 'it is as though ...', governs Konjunktiv II, the mood of the unreal. überstürze is morphologically Konjunktiv I because the Konjunktiv II form of this weak verb would look identical to the past tense, so literary German substitutes Konjunktiv I to keep the subjunctive clear."}],"words":[{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on stirbst","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"der","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, dative, feminine, singular, relative","role":"depends on in","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"du","lemma":"du","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, singular","role":"subject of stirbst","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"stirbst","lemma":"sterben","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, second-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"die"},{"surface":"Es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"it"},{"surface":"ist","lemma":"sein","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"is"},{"surface":"als","lemma":"als","morphology":"subordinating conjunction","role":"depends on ist","gloss":"as though"},{"surface":"überstürze","lemma":"überstürzen","morphology":"verb, present, subjunctive, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the als-clause (subject Himmel, next line)","gloss":"crashed over"}]},{"number":14,"label":"14","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s4-l2","source":"glühender Himmel dich. Es geht ein Sprung","translation":"sky came crashing over you. A crack runs","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s4-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"es geht ein Sprung","title":"ein Sprung geht durch","body":"der Sprung can mean 'leap' but here means 'crack, fissure', as in cracked glass. es geht ein Sprung durch dein Gesicht means 'a crack runs through your face'. The expletive es only fills the front position; the real subject is ein Sprung."}],"words":[{"surface":"glühender","lemma":"glühend","morphology":"adjective, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Himmel","gloss":"burning"},{"surface":"Himmel","lemma":"Himmel","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of überstürze","gloss":"sky"},{"surface":"dich","lemma":"du","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular","role":"object of überstürze","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"Es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on geht","gloss":"it","note":"Dummy subject in the impersonal idiom 'es geht ein Sprung' ('a crack runs/appears'); the real subject is 'Sprung'."},{"surface":"geht","lemma":"gehen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"runs"},{"surface":"ein","lemma":"ein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"depends on Sprung","gloss":"a"},{"surface":"Sprung","lemma":"Sprung","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, singular","role":"subject of geht","gloss":"crack","note":"Here 'Sprung' means a crack or fissure, not 'jump'."}]},{"number":15,"label":"15","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s4-l3","source":"durch dein Gesicht. Es legen sich Gewürze","translation":"through your face. Spices settle themselves","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s4-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"Es legen sich Gewürze","title":"Placeholder es","body":"es again only opens the sentence; the plural verb legen agrees with the real plural subject Gewürze, 'spices'. sich legen here is reflexive, meaning 'to settle, to lay themselves down'."}],"words":[{"surface":"durch","lemma":"durch","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on geht","gloss":"through"},{"surface":"dein","lemma":"dein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gesicht","gloss":"your"},{"surface":"Gesicht","lemma":"Gesicht","morphology":"noun, accusative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on durch","gloss":"face"},{"surface":"Es","lemma":"es","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on legen","gloss":"it","note":"Dummy subject; the real (plural) subject is 'Gewürze', which the verb 'legen' agrees with."},{"surface":"legen","lemma":"legen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"settle"},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on legen","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"Gewürze","lemma":"Gewürz","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, plural","role":"subject of legen","gloss":"spices"}]},{"number":16,"label":"16","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s4-l4","source":"auf deine nordische Erinnerung,","translation":"over your northern remembrance,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s4-l4.m4a","notes":[],"words":[{"surface":"auf","lemma":"auf","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on legen","gloss":"over"},{"surface":"deine","lemma":"dein","morphology":"determiner, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Erinnerung","gloss":"your"},{"surface":"nordische","lemma":"nordisch","morphology":"adjective, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Erinnerung","gloss":"northern"},{"surface":"Erinnerung","lemma":"Erinnerung","morphology":"noun, accusative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on auf","gloss":"remembrance"}]},{"number":17,"label":"17","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s5-l1","source":"die dir nichts hilft. Dich feien keine Kräfte,","translation":"which helps you nothing. No powers ward you,","stanza":5,"audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s5-l1.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"feien","title":"To make charm-proof","body":"feien is a rare, archaic verb meaning 'to make invulnerable, to charm against harm', related to Fee, 'fairy'; its past participle gefeit survives in gegen etwas gefeit sein, 'to be proof against something'. Dich feien keine Kräfte means 'no powers make you charm-proof', with the object dich placed first for emphasis."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"pronoun, nominative, feminine, singular, relative","role":"subject of hilft","gloss":"which"},{"surface":"dir","lemma":"dir","morphology":"pronoun, dative, singular","role":"depends on hilft","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"nichts","lemma":"nichts","morphology":"pronoun, neuter","role":"depends on hilft","gloss":"nothing"},{"surface":"hilft","lemma":"helfen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"helps"},{"surface":"Dich","lemma":"du","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, singular","role":"object of feien","gloss":"you"},{"surface":"feien","lemma":"feien","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"ward","note":"Archaic verb meaning to protect by magic/charm (survives in 'gefeit sein gegen', to be immune to)."},{"surface":"keine","lemma":"kein","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Kräfte","gloss":"no"},{"surface":"Kräfte","lemma":"Kraft","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, plural","role":"subject of feien","gloss":"powers"}]},{"number":18,"label":"18","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s5-l2","source":"die Sonne gärt, das Fieber fällt und trifft;","translation":"the sun ferments, the fever falls and strikes;","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s5-l2.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"gärt","title":"To ferment","body":"gären means 'to ferment, to seethe', the process of wine or dough working. die Sonne gärt casts the sun as a seething heat. fällt und trifft, 'falls and strikes', are two coordinated verbs describing the fever."}],"words":[{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Sonne","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Sonne","lemma":"Sonne","morphology":"noun, nominative, feminine, singular","role":"subject of gärt","gloss":"sun"},{"surface":"gärt","lemma":"gären","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"ferments"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Fieber","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Fieber","lemma":"Fieber","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of fällt","gloss":"fever"},{"surface":"fällt","lemma":"fallen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the second clause","gloss":"falls"},{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on fällt","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"trifft","lemma":"treffen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"depends on und","gloss":"strikes"}]},{"number":19,"label":"19","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s5-l3","source":"von böser Freude steilen sich die Schäfte,","translation":"with wicked joy the shafts rear up,","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s5-l3.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"grammar","term":"steilen sich die Schäfte","title":"Dative of cause","body":"von plus the dative böser Freude gives the cause, 'out of wicked joy'. sich steilen, a coinage from steil, 'steep', means 'to rear up steeply'. die Schäfte, 'the shafts', are the snakes' raised bodies, the subject of the reflexive verb."}],"words":[{"surface":"von","lemma":"von","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on steilen","gloss":"with"},{"surface":"böser","lemma":"böse","morphology":"adjective, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on Freude","gloss":"wicked"},{"surface":"Freude","lemma":"Freude","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, singular","role":"depends on von","gloss":"joy"},{"surface":"steilen","lemma":"steilen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, plural","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"rear up","note":"Rilke's coinage from the adjective 'steil' (steep): 'sich steilen' = to rise up steeply."},{"surface":"sich","lemma":"sich","morphology":"pronoun, accusative, plural, reflexive","role":"depends on steilen","gloss":"themselves"},{"surface":"die","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"depends on Schäfte","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Schäfte","lemma":"Schaft","morphology":"noun, nominative, masculine, plural","role":"subject of steilen","gloss":"shafts","note":"Figurative: the snakes' raised, straightened bodies, not literal shafts."}]},{"number":20,"label":"20","id":"schlangenbeschwoerung-s5-l4","source":"und in den Schlangen glänzt das Gift.","translation":"and in the snakes the venom gleams.","audio":"https://audio.1732studios.com/rilke/schlangenbeschwoerung-s5-l4.m4a","notes":[{"kind":"vocabulary","term":"das Gift","title":"A false friend","body":"das Gift means 'poison, venom' in modern German, a false friend of English 'gift'. It once meant 'something given'; the English sense survives in German only in Mitgift, 'dowry'."}],"words":[{"surface":"und","lemma":"und","morphology":"conjunction","role":"depends on glänzt","gloss":"and"},{"surface":"in","lemma":"in","morphology":"preposition","role":"depends on glänzt","gloss":"in"},{"surface":"den","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on Schlangen","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Schlangen","lemma":"Schlange","morphology":"noun, dative, feminine, plural","role":"depends on in","gloss":"snakes"},{"surface":"glänzt","lemma":"glänzen","morphology":"verb, present, indicative, third-person, singular","role":"main verb of the sentence","gloss":"gleams"},{"surface":"das","lemma":"der","morphology":"determiner, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"depends on Gift","gloss":"the"},{"surface":"Gift","lemma":"Gift","morphology":"noun, nominative, neuter, singular","role":"subject of glänzt","gloss":"venom"}]}]}