Ozymandias

• boundless and bare

  lone and level sands
• a wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
• Structure of Ozymandias

  • Blends Petrarchan and Shakespearean sonnet form
  • Irregular rhyme scheme breaks away from traditional poetry conventions
  • Allows Shelley to imply that all power is transient and give way to new poets who focused on defying old ideas
• Characteristic of Romantic poets who focused on defying old ideas