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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Ozymanias". Poetry Foundation. (Web).

• "Ozymandias" is a sonnet but has an atypical rhyme scheme (ABAB ACDC EDEF EF).

• The sonnet form is Petrarchan (Italian) in its grouping of ideas into an octave that establishes an initial situation, with a volta at line nine introducing a sestet that comments on the octave, but the rhyme scheme is closer to that of a Shakespearean (English) sonnet.

• The poem's meter begins with the iambic pentameter expected in the sonnet form; the octave gradually breaks down into a looser rhythm, but the sestet returns to iambic pentameter again before resolving into a pattern of iamb-iamb-iamb-trochee-iamb in its last three lines.

• "Ozymandias" is a polyphonic poem: the initial speaker quotes the words of a traveler he once met--and inside this quote, the traveler...

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