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** Also the Pilot, his Son, Death, Life-in-Death, and in fact nearly every if not every named character.
* [[Fate Worse Than Death]]: The Mariner gets one of these after [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Death]] loses him to Life-In-Death in a dice game.
* [[Footnote Fever]]: In the second edition, which is the one most commonly reprinted, the poem is accompanied by extensive marginal glosses. These are sometimes referred to as "built-in [https://www.cliffsnotes.com/ Cliff's Notes]".
* [[Fridge Brilliance]]: The Mariner speaks in such an archaic dialect because he never kept up with English. Keep in mind he's immortal, and wanders the earth.
* [[Flying Dutchman]]: The Mariner.
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