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Rime of the ancient mariner is the trace number eight of the fifth album of the Iron Maiden, was published the 3 September of the 1984. One of the longest song composed by the Iron Maiden, with his 13 minutes and 45 seconds, and it is taken from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner composed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Iron Maiden

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Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (Bass Only) [Studio Version]

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Music inside this song represent perfectly what Coleridge wanted to transmit.
The message is really strong and and the atmosphere created is distressing, obscure,
almost supernatural like Coleridge's ballad.

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The Ballad is introduced by an 'Argument', a summary of the entire poem.
Just as the poem has two different narratives, it also has two different settings: one is made up of the captions to the right of the stanzas, which constitute the frame work and introduced the protagonist and his listener; the other is the poem itself.
The ballad is divided into seven sections, which follow the "steps" of the ancient sailor's journey and his curse

The metric form of the text is that of the ballad, a poetic typology that tells a story, often quite long, and which is characterized by a rhythm that makes it also singable.
The stanzas in the poem are meant to be small and easily digestible, and, if you read it straight through, you'll notice lots of repetition between sections.

Style and language
The style is elaborate, enriched with assonances, consonances and repetitions, as well as a figure of sound and rhythm that give the text a particular literary veil.

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The Mariner, an old sailor tormented by the fact that he killed an innocent albatross. When he acts, he does so blindly, under compulsion.

The Wedding Guest, a young man who can't pull himself away from the Mariner with the "glittering eye."

The Mariner's shipmates, who approve of his killing the albatross and thus become complicit in his sin.

The hermit, a holy man from whom the Mariner begs absolution.

The pilot and his boy, who row out to meet the Mariner's boat when it returns to harbor.

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It starts with the old mariner who stops one of the guests came to attend the wedding. He narrates his story of the voyage that he had. Their boat comes across an Albatross who starts visiting their ship regularly. The mariner and others on the boat feed it and love it. One day, the mariner kills the Albatross (almost out of nowhere!). However, some days later, the scene changes completely. The sea becomes horrible and the Sun appears to be a demon. With time, everything on their boat lasts and they are left to starve. Eventually, everyone on the boat except the 'ancient mariner' dies. Moreover, the Albatross he killed is wrapped around his neck. He has a great remorse for the sin he committed and he regrets. Ghost, horror, fear... everything you find in between.

One sudden day, the mariner sees some snakes in the sea. He blesses them and shows his love to them. From that very moment, there comes a change in the scene. Everything that was turned into a nightmare for the mariner gets restored to the original position. At last, the Albatross too falls off from the mariner's neck. He comes a shore and learns a great lesson in the form of:

"He prayeth best, who loveth best

All things both great and small;

For the dear God who loveth us,

He made and loveth all."

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The atmosphere of the poem is mysterious, in fact in the poem there is the combination of the supernatural and the real.
Coleridge tried to make what is unreal appear real.
The nature interacts with the Mariner but when the Mariner kills the albatross the nature punishes him.
He committed a crime against nature, against the creation (albatross).
Thanks to the punishment, the man has learned to respect the natural creatures in order to respect God.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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His contemplation of nature was always accompanied by the awareness of the presence of the ideal in the real.
He didn't identify nature with the divine.
He saw nature and the material world as the projection of 'real' world of ideas on the flux of time

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This ballad is inside the Lyrical Ballads, the most important collection elaborated by William Wordsworth and Coleridge together.
Represent the Manifesto of English Romanticism.
Keys elements of Romanticism

Rediscovery of nature

ediscovery of the supernatural

Celebration of nature

Imagination

Rejection of industrialization, organized religion, rationalism, and social convention

Obscurity (pain, danger, fear)

Subjectivity