I need to paraphrase the initial part of the Rime of the ancient Mariner by Coleridge. I wonder if you could help me rephrase the description of the storm.Thank you.

Question

1) The bride, as red as a rose, has entered into the all and a group of singers and musician goes before her nodding theur heads,
The wedding guest, though (growing) impatient, is bound to listen to the mariner's story.
2)He tells how his ship was caught in a violent storm, then by mist and snow and finally was surrounded by ice.
3) The storm is represented as a huge bird, chasing the ship with its large wings.
4) Stanza I'm having problems with: "With sloping masts and dipping prow,
As who pursued with yell and blow
Still treads the shadow of his foe,
And forward bends his head,
The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast ,
And southward aye we fled."

(The ship drove fast southwards with its sloping masts and dipping prow (as it was) chased by the loud tempest??)

Answer 1

1. "theur" = their heads

You hve done well with #4.

Sra