ozy form

• Sonnet:

  • The poem uses a blend of Petrachan (14 lines) and Shakespearean (irregular rhyme scheme) sonnet, traditionally a way of writing love poems.
• The sonnet form allows Shelly to simultaneously mock Ozymandias' lack of love and respect, but to ridicule his excessive hubris that resulted in this infatuation and love with barbaric power.
• The poem uses iambic pentameter.

  • This is used as a motif of control. It is used throughout the poem in order to demonstrate the frightful regularity of the oppression by those in power on those they rule.
  • They are constrained by the oppressive tyrant that rules them.