There are a number of beautiful similes and metaphors in "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," and Coleridge also uses the devices of symbolism and personification.
Here is a list of some similes (line number follows each):
"red as a rose is she" (34)
"as who pursued with yell and blow/ Still treads the shadow of his foe" (46-47)
"as green as emerald" (54)
"like noises in a swound" (62)
"as if it had been a Christian soul" (65)
"like God's own head" (97)
"as idle as a painted ship/ upon a painted ocean" 117-118)
"like a witch's oils" (129)
"like restless gossameres" (184)
"as through a grate" (186)
"as white as leprosy" (192)
"fear at my heart, as at a cup, / my life-blood seemed to sip" (204)
"like the whizz of my cross-bow" (223)
"as is the ribbed sea-sand" (227)
"as dry as dust" (247)
"like April hoar-frost spread" (268)
"like lifeless tools" (339)
"like a pawing horse let go" (389)
"clear as glass" (472)
"like music on my heart" (499)
"like one that hath been seven days drowned / My body lay afloat" (552)
(The entire section contains 3 answers and 870 words.)
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