Coleridge, Part 1: "The Sun came up upon the left". Part 2: "The Sun now rose upon the right: / Out of the sea came he,". What does this reversal show?

Coleridge, Part 1: "He holds him with his glittering eye". Part 4: "more horrible than that / Is the curse in a dead man's eye!" Part 7: "whose eye is bright". What does the eye come to stand for?

Coleridge, Part 6: "All fixed on me their stony eyes, / That in the Moon did glitter. ... I could not draw my eyes from theirs, / Nor turn them up to pray." What do the dead men's eyes do?

In Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", which element is a motif that gathers meaning across the poem?

Coleridge, Part 4: "Alone, alone, all, all alone, / Alone on a wide wide sea!" Part 7: "this soul hath been / Alone on a wide wide sea". What does the return of the line do?

Coleridge, Part 2: "The very deep did rot: O Christ! / That ever this should be!" Part 6: "And now this spell was snapt: once more / I viewed the ocean green." What does the sea's change track?

Coleridge, Part 4: "I looked to Heaven, and tried to pray: / But or ever a prayer had gusht, / A wicked whisper came". Later: "A spring of love gushed from my heart". Where does the pattern break?

Coleridge, Part 4: "And never a saint took pity on / My soul in agony." Later in Part 4: "Sure my kind saint took pity on me, / And I blessed them unaware." What does the second line mark?

The dead crew fall in Part 3 and rise to work the ropes in Part 5. Coleridge, Part 6: "A man all light, a seraph-man, / On every corse there stood." What have the bodies come to stand for?

Coleridge, Part 5: "The man hath penance done, / And penance more will do." Part 7: "Since then, at an uncertain hour, / That agony returns". What does penance come to mean?

Coleridge, Part 1: "Below the kirk, below the hill, / Below the light-house top." Part 6: "Is this the hill? is this the kirk?" What does the return of these sights mark?

Coleridge, Part 5: "It ceased; yet still the sails made on / A pleasant noise till noon, / A noise like of a hidden brook / In the leafy month of June". What does the brook set against the sea?

In Coleridge's poem, which element recurs without gathering any new meaning?

Coleridge, Part 2: "Nine fathom deep he had followed us / From the land of mist and snow." Part 5: "Under the keel nine fathom deep, / From the land of mist and snow, / The spirit slid". What does the repeat show?

Coleridge, Part 1: "Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, / Glimmered the white Moon-shine." Part 6: "And on the bay the moonlight lay, / And the shadow of the moon." What does the Moon do?

One bird is shot in Part 1. Coleridge, Part 5: "Sometimes a-dropping from the sky / I heard the sky-lark sing; / Sometimes all little birds that are". What does the return of birds mark?

Coleridge, Part 7: "He prayeth best, who loveth best / All things both great and small; / For the dear God who loveth us / He made and loveth all." What does the poem's blessing motif end in?

In Coleridge's poem the Wedding-Guest is held by the Mariner's eye at the start and rises "A sadder and a wiser man" at the end.

Coleridge, Part 1 says twice: "And thus spake on that ancient man, / The bright-eyed Mariner." Each time, it comes right after "He cannot choose but hear". What do these repeated lines do?

Coleridge, Part 2: "As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean." Part 6: "Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, / Yet she sailed softly too". What does the ship's motion track?