Dying In Harness Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABB CCDDEE FFAA GGHH IIJJDD| ONLY a fallen horse stretched out there on the road | A |
| Stretched in the broken shafts and crushed by the heavy load | A |
| Only a fallen horse and a circle of wondering eyes | B |
| Watching the 'frighted teamster goading the beast to rise | B |
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| Hold for his toil is over no more labor for him | C |
| See the poor neck outstretched and the patient eyes grow dim | C |
| See on the friendly stones how peacefully rests the head | D |
| Thinking if dumb beasts think how good it is to be dead | D |
| After the weary journey how restful it is to lie | E |
| With the broken shafts and the cruel load waiting only to die | E |
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| Watchers he died in harness died in the shafts and straps | F |
| Fell and the burden killed him one of the day's mishaps | F |
| One of the passing wonders marking the city road | A |
| A toiler dying in harness heedless of call or goad | A |
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| Passers crowding the pathway staying your steps awhile | G |
| What is the symbol Only death why should we cease to smile | G |
| At death for a beast of burden On through the busy street | H |
| That is ever and ever echoing the tread of the hurrying feet | H |
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| What was the sign A symbol to touch the tireless will | I |
| Does He who taught in parables speak in parables still | I |
| The seed on the rock is wasted on heedless hearts of men | J |
| That gather and sow and grasp and lose labor and sleep and then | J |
| Then for the prize A crowd in the street of ever echoing tread | D |
| The toiler crushed by the heavy load is there in his harness dead | D |
John Boyle O'reilly
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