Reply to Ozymandias:

The poem Ozymandias is an excellent way of demonstrating the decay and impermanence of rule.
The author talks about many aspects of the king and how his tyranny must have affected the sculptors but how only their craftsmanship remains the hate of the king washed away by the sands. How only his feet remain and that his face has fallen. He has "lost face". This is also shown by the sand washing away his kingdom to dust, the sands and the impossibly powerful element of time. I really like this poem as it says the same as Charlie Chaplain. "As long as men die liberty will never perish." All rulers die and all people move on. The people who demand followers will be forgotten by time.

• alliteration
the repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables of an English language phrase.
• allusion
an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly
• assonance
 the repetition of vowel sounds to create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences
• ballad
a form of verse, often a narrative set to music
• blank verse
 poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters.
• caesura
 a complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition.
• couplet
Couplets usually consist of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.
• diction
choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
• end rhyme
a rhyme that occurs in the last syllables of verses
• enjambment
incomplete syntax at the end of a line
• epic
 a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds 
• foot
 the basic metrical unit that generates a line of verse in most Western traditions of poetry
• free verse
open form of poetry.
• imagery
 an author's use of vivid and descriptive language to add depth to his or her work.
• lyric
Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song
• metaphor
figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is, on some point of comparison, the same as another otherwise unrelated object. 
• meter
 the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse.
• ode
 is a type of lyrical stanza.
• onomatopoeia
a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes
• repetition
 the simple repeating of a word
• rhyme scheme
the pattern of rhyme between lines of a poem or song
• rhythm
movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions.
• simile
a rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly compares two objects through some connective word 
• sonnet
 a poem of fourteen lines that follows a strictrhyme scheme and specific structure.
• stanza
a grouped set of lines within a poem
• stress
Stress is the emphasis that falls on certain syllables and not others
• theme(s)
 the central topic a text treats
• tone
encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work
• verse
 any division or grouping of words in a poetic composition

• volta
the turn in thought in a sonnet that is often indicated by such initial words asBut, Yet, or And yet