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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a literary ballad by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, known for its dramatic narrative and supernatural events. It follows traditional ballad structures, like iambic...

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The meter in "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" employs ballad meter with alternating iambic tetrameter and trimeter, rhymed ABAB, situating it within the tradition of narrative folk ballads, often...

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