My New Year’s Resolution for 2021 is to read more poetry. So, this new series of quizzes, will take a poem by a famous poet on their birthday and ask you to fill in the missing words. The poem for this quiz is a few of the most famous verses of the very long The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge whose birthday is on October 21st.
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Down dropt the —, the sails dropt down, ‘Twas sad as sad could be;
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breeze
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wind
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And we did speak only to break The — of the sea!
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silence
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stillness
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All in a hot and — sky, The bloody Sun, at noon,
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copper
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iron
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Right up above the mast did —, No bigger than the Moon.
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stand
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float
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Day after day, day after day, We —, nor breath nor motion;
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stuck
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paused
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As idle as a painted ship Upon a — ocean.
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painted
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lifeless
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Water, water, every where, And all the boards did —;
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shrink
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creak
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Water, water, every where, Nor any — to drink.
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drop
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drip
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The very deep did —: O Christ! That ever this should be!
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rot
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sleep
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Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs — the slimy sea.
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Upon
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Across
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About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires — at night;
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danced
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flared
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The water, like a witch’s oils, Burnt green, and — and white.
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blue
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black
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And some in — assurèd were Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
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dreams
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signs
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Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of — and snow.
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mist
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fog
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And every tongue, through — drought, Was withered at the root;
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utter
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total
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We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked — soot.
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with
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by
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Ah! well a-day! what — looks Had I from old and young!
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evil
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cursed
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Instead of the cross, the Albatross — my neck was hung.
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About
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Around
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Good fun thanks!