4. cool to his very heart.
6. The flood swells up and divides (as the body emerges from it). Note effect of the inversion — XX — X —.
13. FISCHLEIN, dative. MIR IST = I feel.
16. ERST, now for the first time.
19. WELLENATMEND. The word pictures graphically the rise and fall of the sun's image in the waves.
20. DOPPELT SCHÖNER = doppelt schön.
22. DAS FEUCHTVERKLÄRTE BLAU, The azure of the sky transfigured in the water.
30. Then he was doomed. Compare the expression: "he is done for."
14. ERLKÖNIG is a corruption of Elbkönig, i.e., the king of the elves. Notice the difference in the speeches of the three characters: the calm assuaging tone of the father, whose senses seem dead to the supernatural; the luring song of the Erlkönig, that changes abruptly to an impetuous demand; the ever increasing terror of the child till its fear is imparted to the father. The child's speech is driven relentlessly forward by terror; notice the effect of the inversion in 22 and 28: — XX —, etc.
19. FÜHREN DEN NÄCHTLICHEN REIHN, dance the nightly round.