Personal Response:
Mood – Lonely, old, distant. Set in an older time.
Thoughts/Ideas – Finding an older civilization, finding a reference to a higher being.
Questions – Who is Ozymandias, where is this, who found the stone.
Conclusions – None
Links – Things like the pyramids, stone henge, the Aztecs.
Structure:
The first part of the poem talks about how he finds the stone in the desert and leads us into what it could be. The second part just straight up tells us what it is with the words from Ozymandias appearing on the stone.
14 lines, 10 syllables a line. The same as a sonnet, just different groups. The some of the lines rhyme but not all.
Language Effects:
It is told from third person. We don’t know the name of the person who met the traveler.