quotes

Cards (61)

  • sneer of
    cold command - ozymandias
  • stamped on these
    lifeless things -ozymandias
  • boundless and
    bare - ozymandias
  • the hand that
    mocked them -ozymandias
  • chartered thames
    does flow - london
  • mind forged
    manacles - london
  • runs in blood
    down palace walls - london
  • marriage
    hearse - london
  • nothing beside
    remains - ozymandias
  • struture of ozymandias
    sonnet rhyme scheme that is irregular to symbolise the broken statue
  • every blacking church
    appals - london
  • Structure of london
    iambic tetrameter - relentless oppression
    cyclical structure - suffering is never ending
  • troubled
    pleasure - the prelude
  • an act of
    stealth - the prelude
  • grim
    shape - the prelude
  • there hung a
    darkness - the prelude
  • into the valley
    rode the six hundred - COTLB
  • left of
    the six hundred - COTLB
  • honour the
    charge they made! - COTLB
  • When can their
    glory fade? - COTLB
  • valley of
    death - COTLB
  • mouth of
    hell -COTLB
  • someone had
    blundered - COTLB
  • theirs not to reason why
    thiers but to do and die - COTLB
  • Structure of COTLB
    6 stanzas to represent 600 soliders
    military ryhme scheme to represent marching expect from the words tennoyson wants to emphasise eg blundered
  • meriless iced east
    winds that knife us - exposure
  • but nothing
    happends - exposure
  • mad gusts tugging
    on the wire - exposure
  • For the love
    of God seems dying - exposure
  • twitching
    agnonies - exposure
  • bullets streak
    the silence - exposure
  • Structure of exposure
    half rhyme to show how unsettled the soldiers are
  • we are prepared
    we build our houses squat - SOTI
  • it is a huge nothing
    that we fear - SOTI
  • spits like a tame cat
    turned savage - SOTI
  • exploding
    comfortably - SOTI
  • blast you know
    what i mean - SOTI
  • you might think
    sea is company - SOTI
  • we are
    bombarded with empty air - SOTI
  • Structure of SOTI
    It is written in iambic pentameter to give it continuity and pace. Enjambment keeps the narrative constant