The setting of the ballad is the bridgroom in the first part, and in the second part is a ship.

The characters of the story are the mariner and the guest.

At the beginning of the ballad the ancient mariner starts to introduce his story to the guest, even if that person won't hear him.

I can identify two storylines in the ballad.

The ancient mariner has long grey beard and glittering eye and he has skinny hands. His portrait is not very detailed.

The old man is described as a real true-to-life.

The type and the features of the scapes passed through during the journey:

-kirk; -hill; -lighthouse; -sloping masts; - the drifts.

The natural elements that are perosnified are the tempest and the drifts.

Nature is represented both in a realistic and in symbolic way.

Supernatural elements are for example the ship that seems that it is moved by misterious elements, and also when Coleridge describes the mariner's eyes as "glittering eye" we can find something of supernatural.

It agrees with the intention that are expressed by Coleridge in his Biographia Literaria.

In the text there are some alliterations, for example at the third line there is an alliteration of "g" and "b" sounds and also in the nineth line there is the repetition of "h", probably because the poet wants to use a sound that remember a sort of suspance and sigh.

There are also some anaphoras, for example the repetition of the words "The ice" at lines 59 and 60 maybe to underline the important part of the ice in the tempest.

Near this part, at the line 61 there are a lot onomatopeic verbs, for example crack'd, growl'd and howl'd that are used by Coleridge to give a better idea of sounds in the scene of boat during the tempest.

In addition there are a lot of internal rhymes, for example at the seventh line there is the rhyme of "met" and "set". Perhaps this is not a conceptual choice, but Coleridge do this may because he wants to make more musical the reading.

The listener said that he is afraid of the ancient mariner: the poet with this passage wants to explain that things supernatural are frightening who people who are not used, and in this case the fear of the supernatural is reflected on the ancient mariner.

Next, the seaman assures him because he is still alive.

Then the sailor said that at the point there was only and around hime there were only the sea and its creatures.

The mariner also tried to pray, but could not, and meanwhile he watched the corpses of the other members of the sail.

For seven days and nights he endured their gaze.

He also blessed the creatures of the sea and all living things, during this time he also discovered that he cuold pray.

At the end of the poem, the celebration of marriage continues while the sailor heard the evening bell calling him to pray.

Ha says also that it is very sweet for him to pray God, an he says that he becames a better man, who loves all things that God has created.

Now even the old mariner becames a guest of the wedding, and he also realizes that he is a sadder and wiser man.