Answer :
1. It will be worn away by the elements of the desert.
2. See how powerful I am and fear me.
3. Ironic
4. Convey the sense of history in the statue.
5. Proud, commanding, powerful, cold-hearted
6. 14
7. The octave proposes the problem.
8. The sestet resolves the problem in the sonnet.
9. Has a subject and a predicate, but it cannot stand alone as a sentence.
10. The rest of the group had already left.
11. You should take an umbrella.
In my opinion it should be definition and example
"... but hold it <em>like </em>a candle flame..."
The main idea of the poem is up to whoever, as poems are very subjective, however what I understand, the poem is about a forbidden love.