devices

• sonnet


  14 lines

  originally form 14th century Italy

  Originally about 'courtly love' which is about flattery rather then real love

  Rhyme scheme - ABABAB CDCDCD

  split into 8 lines (octet) and 6 lines (sestet) - separated by a volta

  themes of love and admiration
• has three writers

  1. the narrator - 'I met a traveller from an antique land'
  2. traveller - 'two vast and trunkless legs of stone'
  3. Ozymandias - 'King of kings'