Alexander Pope's "ode on solitude" Poem Help?

"Happy the man, whose wish and care


A few paternal acres bound,


Content to breathe his native air,


In his own ground.





Whose heards with milk, whose fields with bread,


Whose flocks supply him with attire,


Whose trees in summer yield him shade,


In winter fire.





Blest! who can unconcern'dly find


Hours, days, and years slide soft away,


In health of body, peace of mind,


Quiet by day,





Sound sleep by night; study and ease


Together mix'd; sweet recreation,


And innocence, which most does please,


With meditation.





Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;


Thus unlamented let me dye;


Steal from the world, and not a stone


Tell where I lye."











I need help finding sound effects (sibilance, repetition, assonance, consonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, pun, etc. And also the poetic devices in this poem,. Like metaphors, symbol, personification, simile, irony, metonymy, allusion, synechoche, imgary etc.

Alexander Pope's "ode on solitude" Poem Help?
There is a fair amount of repitition "whose heards...whose fields, whose flock, whose trees etc" also "thus let me live...thus unlamented" and "let me live" contrasted with "let me die."





There is a little alliteration "sound sleep by night, study and ease."





No assonance, no consonance, no onomatopoeia, no pun.


It's hard to say there's a metaphor here. There's hardly any symbolism either.


You could argue there is some personification in the fields having bread because they don't really have bread they have wheat, but that's a streatch. There's no simile. No irony unless you think his position is ironic in and of itself (which I do not). There is metonymy in "heards with milk, whose fields with bread," and "not a stone tell where I lye" because heards don't really have milk, they make it, fields don't have bread, they are associated with it because they make wheat, and stones don't really tell where people lye but they are associated.


There is no allusion as far as I can tell.





It's really a pretty straight forward poem celebrating a quiet life. He doesn't use many of the official poetic or literary devices. He just explains himself...the best kind of poetry in my mind.
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