The title is composed of a single word: Ozymandias, a proper name.

The reader is immediately intrigued by the title because he would know what the name refers to. It should probably be the name of somebody or of an object or it should also be an exotic place invented by the poet.

The poem is arranged into a single stanza of fourteen lines.

Right from the first line, the reader is able to understand the context of the poem.

It is a story  told through a dialogue between a speaking voice and a traveller from an old place.

The writer uses the word “antique” to describe the traveller’s land because he wants to give more importance to the place and create an atmosphere of exoticism and curiosity around it.

In the second line the dialogue begins.

It is a sort of the traveller’s monologue. He starts to describe a scene whereyou can see two big legs of stone without a body trunk standing in the desert. They are “vaste” because they are so big; probably they were a piece of an enormous sculpture.

Later he says that near the legs, in the sand, there is a shattered visage lying, probably it has fallen down from the sculpture.

The sculptor has done a nice work with this face because even if the face is damaged, it keeps the memories of the man's emotions in this thing that is without life.