Rhyme+Scheme

Rhyme Scheme

  *The analysis is based on the marking of Ozymandias below. The argument that legacies cannot withstand the test of time is shown through the use of rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme is ABABACDCEDEFEF. This is inconsistent and mirrors the significance of individuals with changing time. Each letter, and color bellow, represents a different person and the poem can be separated into the three time periods shown. The time periods are based on the birth of individuals of different generations and how long they are remembered. With the exception of D, orange, none of the individuals, colors, carry over into the next time period. Even his memory then dies out and is replaced by E and F (orange and blue).  Time Period One I met a traveler 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)  And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command, (A) Time Period Two Tell that its sculptor well those passions read (C) Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, (D) The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed; (C) Time Period Three <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(55, 98, 215); text-align: center; display: block; font-size: 140%;"><span style="color: rgb(253, 110, 23);"> And on the pedestal these words appear: (E) <span style="color: rgb(255, 107, 206);">“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: (D)

<span style="color: rgb(253, 110, 23);">Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” (E) <span style="color: rgb(12, 25, 237);">Nothing beside remains. Round the decay (F) <span style="color: rgb(253, 110, 23);">Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, (E) <span style="color: rgb(11, 34, 249);">The lone and level sands stretch far away. (F) <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(55, 98, 215); text-align: center; display: block; font-size: 170%;"> Symbolic Meaning Home