"Schubert's piano introduction to Erlkonig prefigures with two important surface motives - the arpeggiation and the neighbor-note figure - the song'e large-scale tonal design: G-Bflat-D-Eflat-D-G" (Stein 145). At the right is a reduction of the triplet motif that occurs numerous times throughout the piece, which is followed by a descending arpeggio. The triplets create an image of the rushing wind as the father and son travel through the night. In the second measure above, the rise and fall of the piece as a whole is depicted.
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