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Part I

1.

This poem is a fourteen-line sonnet. Its rhyme scheme pattern is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG,
written in iambic pentameter. It comprises three quatrains, four lines, one couplet, and two
rhythmic lines. Line 13 has a mid-line reversal. There is one definite in line 10 and several
potentials in lines 3,14, and 11.

3. This story is about a six-year-old who lost her mother at the age of four. While she doesn’t
remember much, she remembers some minor details of her mother’s face. As she describes the
day her mother died, she remembers how her father made to pray for her mother. She remembers
how sad her father was. She also describes her father as brownish while he was crying. She
hardly stopped her from laughing as she didn’t want to make her father angry. She never thought
grown-up people could cry like this unless they were on television.

Part2

3. Both “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” and “Ozymandias” are Romantic poems. But they
have some differences .

Here are some differences:

1. “I wandered lonely as a Cloud” has simple and folksy theme and language. It consists of
four stanzas with six lines each. The four six-line stanzas of this poem follow a quatrain-
couplet rhyme scheme “ABABCC”.
While “Ozymandias” is a sonnet, a fourteen-line poem metered in iambic pentameter.
"Ozymandias" follows a rhyme scheme of ABABA CDCEDEFEF.
2. The word loneliness described differently in both poems. In “I wandered lonely as a
Cloud” writer describes loneliness as light emotion. While in “Ozymandias” writers
describing of loneliness is strong as he writes nothing besides remains.
3. The tone of the poem “I Wandered Lonely” as a Cloud is joyful and exciting.
"Ozymandias" has a tone of ironic solemnity.
4. The major theme of “I Wandered Lonely” is nature and human involvement in natural
beauty. The major theme behind "Ozymandias" is that all power is temporary, no matter
how prideful or tyrannical a ruler is. 

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