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Nelly Sachs 1891 (Schöneberg) – 1970 (Stockholm)

Who played with nothing but balls of water
that smashed, soundless, the air.

Yet glimpse of seven lit a vision
shared.

One heartbeat: one
in the space of what? angels

Your fiery enterprise when —
Hush!  a soul went —
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Scheme XX AX AX XX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 213
Words 40
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2
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Nelly Sachs

Nelly Sachs was a Jewish German-Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokeswoman for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. more…

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