The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Part IA
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It is an ancient MarinerB
And he stoppeth one of threeC
'By thy long grey beard and glittering eyeA
Now wherefore stopp'st thou meC
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The bridegroom's doors are opened wideD
And I am next of kinE
The guests are met the feast is setF
Mayst hear the merry din '-
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He holds him with his skinny handG
There was a ship quoth heC
'Hold off unhand me grey beard loon '-
Eftsoons his hand dropped heC
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He holds him with his glittering eyeA
The Wedding Guest stood stillH
And listens like a three years' childI
The Mariner hath his willH
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The Wedding Guest sat on a stoneJ
He cannot choose but hearK
And thus spake on that ancient manL
The bright eyed MarinerB
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The ship was cheered the harbour clearedM
Merrily did we dropN
Below the kirk below the hillH
Below the lighthouse topN
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The sun came up upon the leftO
Out of the sea came heC
And he shone bright and on the rightP
Went down into the seaC
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Higher and higher every dayQ
Till over the mast at noonR
The Wedding Guest here beat his breastS
For he heard the loud bassoonR
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The bride hath paced into the hallT
Red as a rose is sheC
Nodding their heads before her goesU
The merry minstrelsyU
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The Wedding Guest he beat his breastS
Yet he cannot choose but hearK
And thus spake on that ancient manL
The bright eyed MarinerB
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And now the storm blast came and heC
Was tyrannous and strongV
He struck with his o'ertaking wingsU
And chased us south alongV
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With sloping masts and dipping prowW
As who pursued with yell and blowX
Still treads the shadow of his foeX
And foward bends his headY
The ship drove fast loud roared the blastZ
And southward aye we fledY
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And now there came both mist and snowX
And it grew wondrous coldA2
And ice mast high came floating byA
As green as emeraldB2
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And through the drifts the snowy cliftsU
Did send a dismal sheenC2
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we kenD2
The ice was all betweenC2
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The ice was here the ice was thereE2
The ice was all aroundF2
It cracked and growled and roared and howledG2
Like noises in a swoundG2
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At length did cross an AlbatrossU
Thorough the fog it cameH2
As it had been a Christian soulI2
We hailed it in God's nameH2
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It ate the food it ne'er had eatG2
And round and round it flewJ2
The ice did split with a thunder fitG2
The helmsman steered us throughJ2
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And a good south wind sprung up behindG2
The Albatross did followX
And every day for food or playQ
Came to the mariner's holloX
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In mist or cloud on mast or shroudG2
It perched for vespers nineK2
Whiles all the night through fog smoke whiteG2
Glimmered the white moonshineK2
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'God save thee ancient MarinerB
From the fiends that plague thee thusU
Why look'st thou so ' With my crossbowX
I shot the AlbatrossU
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Part IIA
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The sun now rose upon the rightG2
Out of the sea came heC
Still hid in mist and on the leftG2
Went down into the seaC
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And the good south wind still blew behindG2
But no sweet bird did followX
Nor any day for food or playQ
Came to the mariners' holloX
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And I had done a hellish thingL2
And it would work 'em woeX
For all averred I had killed the birdG2
That made the breeze to blowX
Ah wretch said they the bird to slayQ
That made the breeze to blowX
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Nor dim nor red like God's own headG2
The glorious sun upristG2
Then all averred I had killed the birdG2
That brought the fog and mistG2
'Twas right said they such birds to slayQ
That bring the fog and mistG2
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The fair breeze blew the white foam flewJ2
The furrow followed freeC
We were the first that ever burstG2
Into that silent seaC
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Down dropped the breeze the sails dropped downM2
'Twas sad as sad could beC
And we did speak only to breakN2
The silence of the seaC
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All in a hot and copper skyA
The bloody sun at noonR
Right up above the mast did standG2
No bigger than the moonR
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Day after day day after dayQ
We stuck nor breath nor motionO2
As idle as a painted shipP2
Upon a painted oceanO2
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Water water every whereE2
And all the boards did shrinkQ2
Water water every whereE2
Nor any drop to drinkQ2
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The very deep did rot O ChristG2
That ever this should beC
Yea slimy things did crawl with legsU
Upon the slimy seaC
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About about in reel and routG2
The death fires danced at nightG2
The water like a witch's oilsU
Burnt green and blue and whiteG2
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And some in dreams assured wereB
Of the Spirit that plagued us soX
Nine fathom deep he had followed usU
From the land of mist and snowX
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And every tongue through utter droughtG2
Was withered at the rootG2
We could not speak no more than ifR2
We had been choked with sootG2
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Ah well a day what evil looksU
Had I from old and youngS2
Instead of the cross the AlbatrossU
About my neck was hungS2
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Part IIIA
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There passed a weary time Each throatG2
Was parched and glazed each eyeA
A weary time a weary timeT2
How glazed each weary eyeA
When looking westward I beheldG2
A something in the skyA
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At first it seemed a little speckU2
And then it seemed a mistG2
It moved and moved and took at lastG2
A certain shape I wistG2
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A speck a mist a shape I wistG2
And still it neared and nearedG2
As if it dodged a water spriteG2
It plunged and tacked and veeredG2
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With throats unslaked with black lips bakedG2
We could nor laugh nor wailV2
Through utter drought all dumb we stoodG2
I bit my arm I sucked the bloodG2
And cried A sail a sailV2
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With throats unslaked with black lips bakedG2
Agape they heard me callT
Gramercy they for joy did grinE
And all at once their breath drew inE
As they were drinking allT
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See see I cried she tacks no moreW2
Hither to work us wealT
Without a breeze without a tideG2
She steadies with upright keelT
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The western wave was all a flameH2
The day was well nigh doneO2
Almost upon the western waveX2
Rested the broad bright sunO2
When that strange shape drove suddenlyT
Betwixt us and the sunO2
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And straight the sun was flecked with barsU
Heaven's Mother send us graceU
As if through a dungeon grate he peeredG2
With broad and burning faceU
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Alas thought I and my heart beat loudG2
How fast she nears and nearsU
Are those her sails that glance in the sunO2
Like restless gossameresU
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Are those her ribs through which the sunO2
Did peer as through a grateG2
And is that Woman all her crewJ2
Is that a Death and are there twoJ2
Is Death that Woman's mateG2
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Her lips were red her looks were freeT
Her locks were yellow as goldG2
Her skin was as white as leprosyT
The Nightmare Life in Death was sheT
Who thicks man's blood with coldG2
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The naked hulk alongside cameH2
And the twain were casting diceU
'The game is done I've won I've won '-
Quoth she and whistles thriceU
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The sun's rim dips the stars rush outG2
At one stride comes the darkY2
With far heard whisper o'er the seaT
Off shot the spectre barkY2
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We listened and looked sideways upZ2
Fear at my heart as at a cupZ2
My life blood seemed to sipP2
The stars were dim and thick the nightG2
The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed whiteG2
From the sails the dew did dripP2
Till clomb above the eastern barA3
The horned moon with one bright starA3
Within the nether tipP2
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One after one by the star dogged moonR
Too quick for groan or sighA
Each turned his face with a ghastly pangB3
And cursed me with his eyeA
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Four times fifty living menD2
And I heard nor sigh nor groanJ
With heavy thump a lifeless lumpC3
They dropped down one by oneO2
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The souls did from their bodies flyA
They fled to bliss or woeX
And every soul it passed me byA
Like the whizz of my crossbowX
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Part IVA
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'I fear thee ancient MarinerB
I fear thy skinny handG2
And thou art long and lank and brownM2
As is the ribbed sea sandG2
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I fear thee and thy glittering eyeA
And thy skinny hand so brown '-
Fear not fear not thou Wedding GuestG2
This body dropped not downM2
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Alone alone all all aloneJ
Alone on a wide wide seaT
And never a saint took pity onD3
My soul in agonyT
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The many men so beautifulT
And they all dead did lieA
And a thousand thousand slimy thingsU
Lived on and so did IA
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I looked upon the rotting seaT
And drew my eyes awayQ
I looked upon the rotting deckU2
And there the dead men layQ
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I looked to heaven and tried to prayQ
But or ever a prayer had gushtG2
A wicked whisper came and madeG2
My heart as dry as dustG2
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I closed my lids and kept them closeU
And the balls like pulses beatG2
Forthe sky and the sea and the sea and the skyA
Lay like a load on my weary eyeA
And the dead were at my feetG2
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The cold sweat melted from their limbsU
Nor rot nor reek did theyQ
The look with which they looked on meT
Had never passed awayQ
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An orphan's curse would drag to hellT
A spirit from on highA
But oh more horrible than thatG2
Is the curse in a dead man's eyeA
Seven days seven nights I saw that curseU
And yet I could not dieA
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The moving moon went up the skyA
And no where did abideG2
Softly she was going upZ2
And a star or two besideG2
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Her beams bemocked the sultry mainE3
Like April hoar frost spreadG2
But where the ship's huge shadow layQ
The charmed water burnt alwayQ
A still and awful redG2
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Beyond the shadow of the shipP2
I watched the water snakesU
They moved in tracks of shining whiteG2
And when they reared the elfish lightG2
Fell off in hoary flakesU
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Within the shadow of the shipP2
I watched their rich attireB
Blue glossy green and velvet blackF3
They coiled and swam and every trackF3
Was a flash of golden fireB
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O happy living things no tongueS2
Their beauty might declareE2
A spring of love gushed from my heartG2
And I blessed them unawareE2
Sure my kind saint took pity on meT
And I blessed them unawareE2
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The selfsame moment I could prayQ
And from my neck so freeT
The Albatross fell off and sankG3
Like lead into the seaT
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Part VT
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Oh sleep it is a gentle thingL2
Beloved from pole to poleT
To Mary Queen the praise be givenO2
She sent the gentle sleep from heavenO2
That slid into my soulT
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The silly buckets on the deckU2
That had so long remainedG2
I dreamt that they were filled with dewG2
And when I awoke it rainedG2
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My lips were wet my throat was coldG2
My garments all were dankG3
Sure I had drunken in my dreamsU
And still my body drankG3
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I moved and could not feel my limbsU
I was so light almostG2
I thought that I had died in sleepH3
And was a blessed ghostG2
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And soon I heard a roaring windG2
It did not come anearT
But with its sound it shook the sailsU
That were so thin and sereT
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The upper air burst into lifeA
And a hundred fire flags sheenC2
To and fro they were hurried aboutG2
And to and fro and in and outG2
The wan stars danced betweenC2
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And the coming wind did roar more loudG2
And the sails did sigh like sedgeI3
And the rain poured down from one black cloudG2
The moon was at its edgeI3
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The thick black cloud was cleft and stillT
The moon was at its sideG2
Like waters shot from some high cragG3
The lightning fell with never a jagG3
A river steep and wideG2
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The loud wind never reached the shipP2
Yet now the ship moved onD3
Beneath the lightning and the moonR
The dead men gave a groanJ
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They groaned they stirred they all uproseU
Nor spake nor moved their eyesU
It had been strange even in a dreamJ3
To have seen those dead men riseU
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The helmsman steered the ship moved onD3
Yet never a breeze up blewG2
The mariners all 'gan work the ropesU
Where they were wont to doG2
They raised their limbs like lifeless toolsU
We were a ghastly crewG2
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The body of my brother's sonO2
Stood by me knee to kneeT
The body and I pulled at one ropeK3
But he said nought to meT
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'I fear thee ancient Mariner '-
Be calm thou Wedding GuestG2
'Twas not those souls that fled in painE3
Which to their corses came againD2
But a troop of spirits blestG2
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For when it dawned they dropped their armsU
And clustered round the mastG2
Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouthsU
And from their bodies passedG2
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Around around flew each sweet soundG2
Then darted to the sunO2
Slowly the sounds came back againD2
Now mixed now one by oneO2
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Sometimes a dropping from the skyG3
I heard the skylark singG3
Sometimes all little birds that areT
How they seemed to fill the sea and airT
With their sweet jargoningG3
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And now 'twas like all instrumentsU
Now like a lonely fluteG2
And now it is an angel's songG3
That makes the heavens be muteG2
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It ceased yet still the sails made onD3
A pleasant noise till noonR
A noise like of a hidden brookG3
In the leafy month of JuneR
That to the sleeping woods all nightG2
Singeth a quiet tuneR
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Till noon we quietly sailed onD3
Yet never a breeze did breatheL3
Slowly and smoothly went the shipP2
Moved onward from beneathM3
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Under the keel nine fathom deepH3
From the land of mist and snowX
The spirit slid and it was heT
That made the ship to goX
The sails at noon left off their tuneR
And the ship stood still alsoX
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The sun right up above the mastG2
Had fixed her to the oceanO2
But in a minute she 'gan stirT
With a short uneasy motionO2
Backwards and forwards half her lengthN3
With a short uneasy motionO2
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Then like a pawing horse let goX
She made a sudden boundG2
It flung the blood into my headG2
And I fell down in a swoundG2
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How long in that same fit I layQ
I have not to declareT
But ere my living life returnedG2
I heard and in my soul discernedG2
Two voices in the airT
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'Is it he ' quoth one 'Is this the manL
By him who died on crossU
With his cruel bow he laid full lowX
The harmless AlbatrossU
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The spirit who bideth by himselfA
In the land of mist and snowX
He loved the bird that loved the manL
Who shot him with his bow '-
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The other was a softer voiceU
As soft as honey dewG2
Quoth he 'The man hath penance doneO2
And penance more will do '-
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Part VIG3
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First VoiceU
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But tell me tell me speak againD2
Thy soft response renewingG3
What makes that ship drive on so fastG2
What is the ocean doingG3
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Second VoiceU
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Still as a slave before his lordG2
The ocean hath no blastG2
His great bright eye most silentlyT
Up to the moon is castG2
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If he may know which way to goX
For she guides him smooth or grimO3
See brother see how graciouslyT
She looketh down on himO3
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First VoiceU
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But why drives on that ship so fastG2
Without or wave or windG2
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Second VoiceU
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The air is cut away beforeT
And closes from behindG2
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Fly brother fly more high more highG3
Or we shall be belatedG2
For slow and slow that ship will goX
When the Mariner's trance is abatedG2
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I woke and we were sailing onD3
As in a gentle weatherT
'Twas night calm night the moon was highG3
The dead men stood togetherT
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All stood together on the deckG3
For a charnel dungeon fitterT
All fixed on me their stony eyesU
That in the moon did glitterT
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The pang the curse with which they diedG2
Had never passed awayQ
I could not draw my eyes from theirsU
Nor turn them up to prayQ
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And now this spell was snapped once moreT
I viewed the ocean greenC2
And looked far forth yet little sawU
Of what had else been seenC2
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Like one that on a lonesome roadG2
Doth walk in fear and dreadG2
And having once turned round walks onD3
And turns no more his headG2
Because he knows a frightful fiendG2
Doth close behind him treadG2
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But soon there breathed a wind on meT
Nor sound nor motion madeG2
Its path was not upon the seaT
In ripple or in shadeG2
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It raised my hair it fanned my cheekG3
Like a meadow gale of springG3
It mingled strangely with my fearsU
Yet it felt like a welcomingG3
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Swiftly swiftly flew the shipP2
Yet she sailed softly tooG2
Sweetly sweetly blew the breezeU
On me alone it blewG2
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Oh dream of joy is this indeedG2
The lighthouse top I seeT
Is this the hill is this the kirkG3
Is this mine own countryT
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We drifted o'er the harbour barT
And I with sobs did prayQ
O let me be awake my GodG2
Or let me sleep alwayQ
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The harbour bay was clear as glassU
So smoothly it was strewnR
And on the bay the moonlight layQ
And the shadow of the moonR
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The rock shone bright the kirk no lessU
That stands above the rockG3
The moonlight steeped in silentnessU
The steady weathercockG3
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And the bay was white with silent lightG2
Till rising from the sameH2
Full many shapes that shadows wereT
In crimson colours cameH2
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A little distance from the prowT
Those crimson shadows wereT
I turned my eyes upon the deckG3
Oh Christ what saw I thereT
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Each corse lay flat lifeless and flatG2
And by the holy roodG2
A man all light a seraph manL
On every corse there stoodG2
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This seraph band each waved his handG2
It was a heavenly sightG2
They stood as signals to the landG2
Each one a lovely lightG2
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This seraph band each waved his handG2
No voice did they impartG2
No voice but oh the silence sankG3
Like music on my heartG2
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But soon I heard the dash of oarsU
I heard the Pilot's cheerT
My head was turned perforce awayQ
And I saw a boat appearT
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The Pilot and the Pilot's boyP3
I heard them coming fastG2
Dear Lord in heaven it was a joyP3
The dead men could not blastG2
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I saw a third I heard his voiceU
It is the Hermit goodG2
He singeth loud his godly hymnsU
That he makes in the woodG2
He'll shrieve my soul he'll wash awayQ
The Albatross's bloodG2
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Part VIIG3
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This Hermit good lives in that woodG2
Which slopes down to the seaU
How loudly his sweet voice he rearsU
He loves to talk with marineersU
That come from a far countryU
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He kneels at morn and noon and eveG3
He hath a cushion plumpC3
It is the moss that wholly hidesU
The rotted old oak stumpC3
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The skiff boat neared I heard them talkG3
'Why this is strange I trowX
Where are those lights so many and fairT
That signal made but now '-
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'Strange by my faith ' the Hermit saidG2
'And they answered not our cheerT
The planks looked warped and see those sailsU
How thin they are and sereT
I never saw aught like to themQ3
Unless perchance it wereT
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Brown skeletons of leaves that lagG3
My forest brook alongG3
When the ivy tod is heavy with snowX
And the owlet whoops to the wolf belowX
That eats the she wolf's young '-
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'Dear Lord it hath a fiendish lookG3
The Pilot made replyG3
I am afeared' 'Push on push on '-
Said the Hermit cheerilyG3
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The boat came closer to the shipP2
But I nor spake nor stirredG2
The boat came close beneath the shipP2
And straight a sound was heardG2
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Under the water it rumbled onD3
Still louder and more dreadG2
It reached the ship it split the bayQ
The ship went down like leadG2
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Stunned by that loud and dreadful soundG2
Which sky and ocean smoteG2
Like one that hath been seven days drownedG2
My body lay afloatG2
But swift as dreams myself I foundG2
Within the Pilot's boatG2
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Upon the whirl where sank the shipP2
The boat spun round and roundG2
And all was still save that the hillG3
Was telling of the soundG2
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I moved my lips the Pilot shriekedG2
And fell down in a fitG2
The holy Hermit raised his eyesU
And prayed where he did sitG2
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I took the oars the Pilot's boyP3
Who now doth crazy goX
Laughed loud and long and all the whileG3
His eyes went to and froX
'Ha ha ' quoth he 'full plain I seeU
The Devil knows how to row '-
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And now all in my own countryU
I stood on the firm landG2
The Hermit stepped forth from the boatG2
And scarcely he could standG2
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O shrieve me shrieve me holy manL
The Hermit crossed his browT
'Say quick ' quoth he 'I bid thee sayQ
What manner of man art thou '-
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Forthwith this frame of mine was wrenchedG2
With a woeful agonyU
Which forced me to begin my taleG3
And then it left me freeU
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Since then at an uncertain hourT
That agony returnsU
And till my ghastly tale is toldG2
This heart within me burnsU
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I pass like night from land to landG2
I have strange power of speechR3
That moment that his face I seeU
I know the man that must hear meU
To him my tale I teachR3
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What loud uproar bursts from that doorT
The wedding guests are thereT
But in the garden bower the brideG2
And bride maids singing areT
And hark the little vesper bellG3
Which biddeth me to prayerT
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O Wedding Guest this soul hath beenE
Alone on a wide wide seaU
So lonely 'twas that God himselfG3
Scarce seemed there to beU
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O sweeter than the marriage feastG2
'Tis sweeter far to meU
To walk together to the kirkG3
With a goodly companyU
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To walk together to the kirkG3
And all together prayQ
While each to his great Father bendsU
Old men and babes and loving friendsU
And youths and maidens gayQ
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Farewell farewell but this I tellG3
To thee thou Wedding GuestG2
He prayeth well who loveth wellG3
Both man and bird and beastG2
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He prayeth best who loveth bestG2
All things both great and smallG3
For the dear God who loveth usU
He made and loveth allG3
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The Mariner whose eye is brightG2
Whose beard with age is hoarT
Is gone and now the Wedding GuestG2
Turned from the bridegroom's doorT
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He went like one that hath been stunnedG2
And is of sense forlornS3
A sadder and a wiser manL
He rose the morrow mornS3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge



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