Sound Devices Used In Ozymandias By Percy Bysshe Shelley
The poem Ozymandias written by Percy Bysshe Shelley exhibits a vast variety of sound devices such as rhyme, alliteration, assonance and consonance.
The ending sound in the first four lines of the poem are very similar. For example, “Land” and “sand” at the end of the lines 1 and 3, “stone” and “frown” at the end of the lines 2 and 4. The rhyme of land and sand acts to emphasize that the story takes place at a parched land covered with sand. Similarly, the last four lines has a exact same rhyming pattern as the first four lines. “Despair” rhymes with “bare” and “decay” rhymes with “away”. The rhyme of despair and bare is used to emphasize the destruction of Ozymandias’ kingdom.
The assonance of the vowel sound “e” in “Trunkless legs of stone”
The ending sound in the first four lines of the poem are very similar. For example, “Land” and “sand” at the end of the lines 1 and 3, “stone” and “frown” at the end of the lines 2 and 4. The rhyme of land and sand acts to emphasize that the story takes place at a parched land covered with sand. Similarly, the last four lines has a exact same rhyming pattern as the first four lines. “Despair” rhymes with “bare” and “decay” rhymes with “away”. The rhyme of despair and bare is used to emphasize the destruction of Ozymandias’ kingdom.
The assonance of the vowel sound “e” in “Trunkless legs of stone”