It depicts the Rococo muse Ulla Winblad, as the narrator offers a "little breakfast"[1] of "red wine with burnet, and a newly-shot snipe"[1] in a pastoral setting in the Stockholm countryside.

[5] The epistles, written and performed in different styles, from drinking songs and laments to pastorales, paint a complex picture of the life of the city during the 18th century.

A frequent theme is the demimonde, with Fredman's cheerfully drunk Order of Bacchus,[6] a loose company of ragged men who favour strong drink and prostitutes.

At the same time as depicting this realist side of life, Bellman creates a rococo picture, full of classical allusion, following the French post-Baroque poets.

The women, including the beautiful Ulla Winblad, are "nymphs", while Neptune's festive troop of followers and sea-creatures sport in Stockholm's waters.

Afzelius noted that the melody resembles that of Epistle 25, "Blåsen nu alla"; this would involve a change from 34 to 24 time, which Bellman is known to have been skilful at.

Bellman set two other songs, "Skåden den lugna stranden" (See the calm shore) and "Hjertat det kännes klappa" (The heart is felt beating) to the same melody.

[10] Hvila vid denna källa, Vår lilla Frukost vi framställa: Rödt Vin med Pimpinella Och en nyss skuten Beccasin.

I våra Korgar öfverstfulla, Tömda i gräset rulla, Och känn hvad ångan dunstar fin, Ditt middags Vin Sku vi ur krusen hälla, Med glättig min.

[16] All the same, Burman remarks, the song is a bright counterpart to the farewell of Epistle 79, with Ulla's beauty, green grass and music instead of apocalypse.

[15] The Epistle's pastoral tone and descriptions of food are to an extent anticipated, writes Burman, in Bellman's longest poem, Bacchi Tempel, which mentions exotic imports such as melon and Parmesan.

[17] Lars Lönnroth, writing in Svenska Dagbladet, suggests that the "spring" in the Epistle was in fact not a stream in summer meadows but a fashionable spa, perhaps Djurgårsbrunn on what was in Bellman's time the edge of Stockholm.

An earlier performance by the noted Bellman interpreter Sven-Bertil Taube on his Fredmans Epistlar och Sånger, recorded 1959–1963, was re-released on an EMI-Svenska CD in 1983.