What is a sonnet? Is the poem ozymandias sonnet? Discuss
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Explication. “Ozymandias” is a sonnet, in this case a variant of a Petrarchan sonnet. The Petrarchan sonnet is divided into an 8-lined octave that creates a situation and a 6 line sestet that comments on the situation.
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“Ozymandias” is a sonnet, in this case a variant of a Petrarchan sonnet. The Petrarchan sonnet is divided into an 8-lined octave that creates a situation and a 6 line sestet that comments on the situation. Here’s the rhyme scheme for “Ozymandias.” Some of the rhymes are near rhymes or off rhymes (that is, they’re not exact). Or perhaps rhyming “frown” and “stone” sounded closer in Shelley’s day than it does to us today. While it’s not exactly the rhyme scheme of a Petrarchan sonnet, it’s closer to it than it is to a Shakespearean sonnet and uses the 8/6 line structure of a Petrarchan sonnet.
I met a traveller from an antique land———————-A
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone———–B
Stand in the desert…. Near them on the sand,————-A
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown————B