Ozymandias

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  • Ozymandias
    • Petrarchan Sonnet
      • Octet followed by a sestet
        • the sestet gives a problem and the octet shows the issue will be solved
      • Volta after 9th line and onwards
        • the sestet gives a problem and the octet shows the issue will be solved
      • intermittent rhyming scheme
    • structure
      • 10 beats per line/ Iambic pentameter
        • shows natural speech and that someone is telling a story
      • enjambment
        • shows natural speech and that someone is telling a story
      • told in 1st person
        • the narrator has never actually seen the sculpture its self
    • Quotations
      • 'stand in the desert'
        • personification - stone doesn't stand, shows that the stone is like a person and is therefore like Ramses I/Ozymandias
      • 'its sculptor well  those passion read'
        • the sculptr caught the passion/facial expression of Ramses I/ Ozymandias in the sculpture
      • 'stamped on these lifeless things the mocked and the had that fed
        • the sculptor destroyed the statue
        • 'the hand that mocked' - took the mick out of Ramses as he create the sculpture
    • language
      • Alliteration
        • 'cold command' - the 'c' sounds cold and aggressive
      • by no rhyming between line 5 and 7 shows something may look powerful and strong but it really isn't if you look at it more
      • alliteration of lone and level exaggerates and brings attention to the emptiness of the desert
        • Alliteration
          • 'cold command' - the 'c' sounds cold and aggressive

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