The speaker of the poem invokes a melancholic mood main character wanders through an urban environment and the descriptions are reminiscent of medieval settings.

Concentrating on landscapes, she conveys a sensitive, poetic and often melancholic mood.

It begins with an arpeggio of bells over which a lullaby-like melody - also by bells - sets an emotional and melancholic mood.

The melancholic moods remained a constant.

Stripped of romantic wobble, the strings' playing may have been 'pure', but it was also desiccated, disembodied, hardly fit for the composer's noble utterances and melancholic moods.