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Question
Identify and rewrite the lines from the poem spoken by the narrator, the traveller and Ozymandias:
The Narrator: ________________________________________________________
The Traveller: ________________________________________________________
Ozymandias: ________________________________________________________
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Solution
The Narrator: I met a traveller from an antique land.
The Traveller: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone. Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, who frown, And wrinkled lips and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Ozymandias: “My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
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