Question

he gives his harness bells a shake to ask if there is some mistake. ​

Answer 1

Answer:

Here ‘he’ refers to the horse on which the narrator was travelling.

According to the narrator, the horse was giving a shake to his harness bells to ask him whether there was a mistake. It suggests that the narrator had never stopped there before. It was new to the horse’s experience to stop on the way in that woods.

The lines:

“He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.”

employs a fine piece of personification of the horse. It is addressed like a human being as ‘He’ and the verb ‘to ask’ is used to give it even more prominence.