Ozymandias

• Half sunk a shattered visage lies
• Lone and level sands stretch far away
• Who said :
• My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: look on my works, ye Mighty and despair!
• Which yet survive stamped on these lifeless things
• Sneer of cold command
• Boundless and bare the lone and level sands stretch far away
• Juxtaposes the typical use of sonnets: establishes how literary devices can also defy tradition and give way to new power
• Irregular rhyme scheme contrasts with the single stanza as the lack of rhyme diminishes power whereas the song stanza emphasises it