For 10 points, identify this poem in which the title character recounts his saga to a Wedding-Guest, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
One character in this work resorts to drinking the blood from his own arm in order to speak. In a later scene, that character's unsuccessful attempt to pray leaves his "heart as dry as dust," as he looks upon the bodies of two hundred dead men whose souls were(*) won in a dice game by Life-in-Death. When this work's narrator expresses appreciation for the company of water snakes, the albatross hanging around his neck falls off. For 10 points, identify this poem in which the title character recounts his saga to a Wedding-Guest, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
One character in this work resorts to drinking the blood from his own arm in order to speak.
“The {Rime of the Ancient Mariner}”