Shelley's sonnet follows the traditional structure of the fourteen-line Italian sonnet, featuring an opening octave, or set of eight lines, that presents a conflict or dilemma, followed by a sestet, or set of six lines, that offers some resolution or commentary upon the proposition introduced in the octave. Read the poem carefully and complete the following table on the structure of the poem.

Rhyme Scheme

Theme

Octave

Sestet

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Solution

Rhyme Scheme

Theme

Octave

ABAB-ACDC

Major theme discussed here is that everything in this world is bound by time. Dynamism is the truth of the world.

Sestet

EDEFEF

Major theme here is that we are only human, and though we may consider ourselves to be the earth ruler's, we wither and die like everything else

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	Rhyme Scheme	Theme
Octave	ABAB-ACDC	Major theme discussed here is that everything in this world is bound by time. Dynamism is the truth of the world.
Sestet	EDEFEF	Major theme here is that we are only human, and though we may consider ourselves to be the earth ruler's, we wither and die like everything else