As idle as a painted ship

Reading Dracula for another class, I came across a direct reference and allusion to this scene in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. On his way to England, Dracula's ship is supernaturally possessed by powers that make it act similarly to the Mariner's - Dracula, Chapter 7 - making this more than just a throw-away allusion and further showing the later fame of this particular poem simply by the fact that it can be referenced in such a fashion.