Ozymandias is brilliant! Yet it is not without its critics. There has been much debate over different aspects in this short poem. Is it a sonnet? Is it written in iambic pentameter? How do you pronounce Ozymandias? How many syllable are in Ozymandias? All these and other questions litter the Shelley table.

My purpose in this essay or paper, whatever you wish to call it, is to analyze each verse of the poem for metrical variations. I am not concerned with the content or what the poem is about, only the structure of the verses.