Form

• What type of poem is this?

  A sonnet with a turning point.
• The poem doesn’t follow a regular rhyme scheme. What could this reflect?

  That human power can be destroyed.
• The iambic pentameter in this poem is often…

  Disrupted.
• The story told my the traveller is in a second hand account. What could this do to the reader?

  It distances the reader even further from the dead king.
• What does the sonnets form highlight?

  Ozyamdias’ love for himself.

  Irony- Ozymandias has no love and respect when he is dead due to his tyrannical rule.