Shelly's poem "Ozymandias" employs many of the techniques of sound. Specifically the poem makes use of enjambment. A majority of the poem flows very nicely with few punctuations or stops. This helps support the cheerful and more positive aspects of the poem. However, in order to emphasize a significant poem within the poem, Shelly makes use of caesura with the line “Nothing besides remains”. With this line, the nice flow comes to an abrupt stop. In addition to Shelly’s use of a caesura, the poem contains harsh sounding words such as “cold command” and “sneer”. The sounds of these words causes the reader to stop mid-way into the line. The use of “cold command” gives off not only a harsh sounds, but also an eerie feeling. Similarly, the s sound in the word “sneer” is very strong and adds to the mood of the poem.
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