Talk:The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798)

Gutenberg's Version
I checked this version with the Gutenberg Project's version:


 * Gutenberg and umd have: Higher and higher every day,
 * Oregon has: Higher and Higher every day,


 * Gutenberg has: Her skin is as white as leprosy,
 * umd and Oregon have: Her skin is white as leprosy,
 * BUT the umd scan of the page has the first "as"


 * Gutenberg has: Off darts the Spectre-ship;
 * umd and Oregon have: Oft darts the Spectre-ship;
 * BUT the umd scan looks like the word should be "Off" (with a smudged final f) and "Oft" make far less sense in context so I'm gonna change to "Off"


 * Gutenberg and umd have: And now it is an angel's song
 * Oregon has: And now it is like an angel's song


 * Gutenberg has: Till moon we silently sail’d on
 * umd and Oregon have: Till noon we silently sail’d on
 * and the scan definitely says "noon".


 * Gutenberg and umd have: This seraph-band, each wav'd his hand:
 * Oregon has: This seraph-band, each waved his hand:


 * Gutenberg and umd have: But I ne spake ne stirr'd!
 * Oregon has: But I ne spake ne stirred!

umd and Oregon seem to have no closing quotes while Gutenberg does. Since umd's scan does not have closing quotes, I'm ignoring Gutenberg for these.

I am changing all of these differences to the Gutenberg version except the moon/noon line. Sorry for the long post I'm a newbie, hope I'm not completely screwing this page up. :-P TripsWithTiresias (talk) 01:02, 14 August 2009 (UTC)