The beginning of B14 is typical of the regular declamatory rhythm of the early ballades (see ex.1a). Rests on the caesura and at the end of a phrase correspond to the formal characteristics of the text-line. The structural sonorities (shown in ex.1b) lead after the caesura in the first text-line to an open sonority (bars 4–5), but then move (with the syntax) at the end of the line (bar 7) through the 3rd on f–a (an interval described in contemporary theory as „tendere‟, i.e. „striving‟ or needing resolution) towards the emphasized central word „Amour‟. Dissonances are integrated in short melodic motifs („Floskeln‟, ex.1c), which themselves provide consonant series of structural sonarities, even where the consonant notes do not sound together, as for example in bar 10. At the same time, bar 10 marks off a repetition of the sonorities of the opening bars (1–5) after the mid-point of this part of the song (bars 11–13). This balances the asymmetrical relationship in the length of the text-lines and also in the altered repetition of the progressions of bars 7–9 in bars 14–16, itself underlined by the same progression in minims (quavers in transcription) in bar 13. The articulation and emphasis of particular words by the musical structure corresponds in further strophes to a rhetorical stress on key words in the discourse of the poem as a whole.