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  • Essay / The State of England in 1819 By Percy Bysshe Shelley

    The rhyme scheme he chose subverted a traditional Petrarchan form (Shelley's poetry). The structure of the sonnets is disordered, just as the sonnet depicts the improper and unstructured management of England. To make the audience feel the speaker's fury, Shelley made the entire poem into a single sentence; although several problems have been fixed, punctuation is only used once. By ignoring traditional literary rules and challenging literary boundaries, Shelley used the romantic theme of individualism and