“Ode on Solitude” by Alexander Pope

Ode: A poem that expresses a strong emotion on something or someone (honoring poem)

The poem is divided into five stanzas, each numbering four lines. The last line of each stanza
is significantly shorter than the three primary lines. “Ode on Solitude” was written in iambic
tetrameter. The syllables in the poem alternate between unstressed and stressed. The rhyme
scheme of the poem is a simple a b a b c d c d e f e f g h g h.
The poem is about solitude which is not a bad thing but a blessed condition.

Stanza 1
Pope talks about the happiness and joy, tried by a person who is not forced by the rules and
regulations of society. The person is not only free from the social shackles but also from
himself.
  
  Stanza 2: It talks about the rights of the person who is free and gets delight from the simple
things of life. He has no relatives or friends, and whatever that person do, he does not need to
think about ‘what society thinks’: ‘enjoy what we have, without the worry of what society
thinks’. The person is happy with simple things, a house, a herd of cows, flock of sheep and
trees, he sees as a peasant life and likes to live it.