Editing Ozymandias (section)

==Analysis and interpretation==
Shelley's "Ozymandias" is a [[sonnet]], written in loose [[iambic pentameter]], but with an atypical [[rhyme scheme]],{{sfn|Khan|2015|p=67}} which violates the [[Italian sonnet]] rule that there should be no connection in rhyme between the octave and the sestet.

Two themes of the "Ozymandias" poems are the inevitable decline of rulers and their hubris.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/id-245.html |title=MacEachen, Dougald B. ''CliffsNotes on Shelley's Poems''. 18 July 2011 |publisher=Cliffsnotes.com |access-date=1 August 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305043103/http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/literature/id-245.html |archive-date=5 March 2013 }}</ref> In the poem, despite Ozymandias' grandiose ambitions, the power turned out to be ephemeral.

The rhyme scheme reflects the interlocking stories of the poem's four narrative voices, which are its "I", the "traveller" (an exemplar of the sort of [[travel literature]] author whose works Shelley would have encountered), the statue's "sculptor", and the statue's subject himself.{{sfn|Khan|2015|pp=64,67,72}}
The "I met a traveller [who...]" framing of the poem is an instance of the "[[once upon a time]]" storytelling device.{{sfn|Khan|2015|p=67}}