However, back in Verse-world for a moment, I have always enjoyed The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Not going to post the lot of it, that’d be impolite! But one verse describing the mariner’s ship being becalmed sticks in the mind and conj0urs a stunning image…
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.