Death Of An Old Carriage Horse Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABABCBCBDBDB EFEB GBGB| I was a harness horse | A |
| Constrained to travel weak or strong | B |
| With orders from oppressing force | A |
| Push along push along | B |
| I had no space of rest | C |
| And took at forks the roughest prong | B |
| Still by the cruel driver pressed | C |
| Push along push along | B |
| Vain strove the idle bird | D |
| To charm me with her artless song | B |
| But pleasure lingered from the word | D |
| Push along push along | B |
| - | |
| The order of the day | E |
| Was push the peal of every tongue | F |
| The only word was all the way | E |
| Push along push along | B |
| - | |
| Thus to my journey's end | G |
| Had I to travel right or wrong | B |
| 'Till death my sweet and favored friend | G |
| Bade me from life to push along | B |
George Moses Horton
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