19. WUNNIGLICH ( wonniglich ). 22. VERGUNNT ( vergönnt )—these archaic forms are in keeping with the tone of the ballad and the patriarchal life at King Ringang's court.
87. Appropriately written in the stately Greek trimeter (iambic verse of six feet). Compare with this poem the closing lines of Keats' Ode to a Grecian Urn:
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
Was aber schön ist, selig scheint es in ihm selbst.
But beauty seems a thing all blessed within itself.
6. SCHLINGT DEN RINGELREIHN, circle about in a round dance.
10. IHM, old reflexive instead of sich.
88. The confession of Mörike's ideal.
1. WILLT = willst.
2. A thing of joy or a thing of sorrow.
5-7. WOLLEST NICHT ÜBERSCHÜTTEN, pray do not overwhelm with a flood of.