This is one of interesting poem. All sentences are using simple present tense. If we look up the function of simple present tense, we knows that simple present tense is used to say that something was true in the past, is true in the present, and will be true in the future, express habitual or everyday activity, or indicate a situation that exists right now, at the moment of speaking. In this poem, we may assume that the using of simple present is to indicate a situation that exists right know. The effect of that is if we listen to someone who read this poem, we will feel that he/she try to speak with us about something that happen right now.
“I hear a sudden cry of pain!” In the first line, wa can see that the writer tells us that he hears a cry. A cry that suddenly appears and makes him aware and try to listen it more. The using of interjection means that he is surprised. Then he says that is a sound of a rabbit trapping in a snare. A rabbit can make sound when it is in pain. An ordinary people perhaps doesn’t know how its sound but the writer does. The man which the writer be may be an experienced man in the jungle.
Then he hear the cry again but he doesn’t know where the sound come from. It may be because the sound is too silent or the rabbit is far away from him. “He is calling out for aid;” The writer says the rabbit with pronounciation “he”. It shows his sympathy to the rabbit.
The writer uses part of speech personification. He pronounces the rabbit by using “he” to show and share his symphaty. He tells that the rabbit calling out for aid. Even we cannot understand what the sound of rabbit but the writer describes it as a sound of calling out for aid. The image that he want to show to us is a pain sound that calling for aid.
“Crying on the frightened air, making everything afraid.” Now, he tells that the rabbit is crying. It is crying on the unhappy condition. He describes the bad situation, quiet and terrible that happen now. He wants us to feel that unhappy condition.
“Wringkling up his little face,”. Now, he tries to give a visual imagery that become worse. We don’t know if a rabbit can wringkling his face. If it can does it do when it is in pain? But we do know if someone wringkling his/her face, it must be he/she is in pain. The writer want us imaging the rabbit’s pain. “As he cries again for aid, and I cannot find the place!” The writer don’t find the rabbit yet, but he can imagine the rabbit’s face. We will assume that the rabbit’s crying is so terrible.
“Where his pow is in snare;” Then he imagine again the condition of the rabbit. He imagine that the rabbit is trapped in snare, its pow is tied up in the snare. It cannot go anywhere, only can make a pain sound.
“Little one! Oh, litlle one!” He tries to call the rabbit and hopes the rabbit will answer, but he also knows that the rabbit will not answer. Until the end of the poem, he is still searching for the rabbit. So the end situation is that he cannot find the rabbit.
This poem tries to give imagery about the unhappy situation. The situation when we hear a misserable voice. We want to find that misserable voice come from but we can find. The misserable voice is from a rabbit. A rabbit is a (perhaps people will tought) cute animal. Some people like them, or at least less people who don’t like it.
As I mentioned above that a rabbit will make sound when it’s in pain. So if we heard the sound of rabbit we will assume that rabbit is in pain and try to find it. This poem can make visual imagery about the condition when a rabbit trapped in snare.
Beside the imagery, this poem also have an interresting rhyme. In the first stanza, the last word of of each line is “pain”, “snare”, “again”, and “where”. Its rhyme is a-b-a-b. In the second stanza, the last word of each line is “where”, “aid”, “air”, and “afraid”. Its rhyme is b-c-b-c. In the fourth stanza, the last word of each line is “afraid”, “face”, “aid”, and “place”. Its rhyme is c-d-c-d. The last stanza does not give a good rhyme. The last word of each line is “place”, “snare”, “one” and “where”. Its rhyme is d-b-a-d.
This poem is contained of four stanzas. In the first, second, and third stanza, the last line is repeated into the next stanza. The last line of first stanza becomes the first line of the second stanza. The last line of second stanza becomes the first line of the third stanza. The last line of third stanza becomes the first line of the fourth stanza. These may be made to make the rhyme interest.
The rhythm of this poetry is unique. There are two kinds of rhytm in this poem. The first rhythm is iambic tetrameter. This rhythm appears in the first and second line. The second kind is iambic, but I do not sure about the meter. It has three feet and plus one syllabel. It appears in the third line untill the fifteenth line.
I will describe the rhythm. Each foot will devide by a slash (/) and the streessed syllable will be bold. “I hear / a sud- / -den cry / of pain!”. It has four feet and the streessed is in the end of each foot so it is Iambic tetrameter. “There is / a rab- / -bit in / a snare;” It has four feet and the streessed is in the end of each foot so it is Iambic tetrameter. “Now I / hear the / cry aga / in,” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot. “But I / can-not / tell from / where.” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot. “He is / cal-ling / out for/ aid;” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot. “Cry-ing / on the / frigh-tened / air,” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot. “Mak-ing / e-very / thing a- / -fraid.” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot. “Wrin-kling / up his / lit-tle / face,” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot. “As he / cries a- / -gain for / aid;” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot. “And I / can-not / find the / place!” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot. “Where his / paw is / in the / snare:” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot. “Lit-tle / one! Oh, / lit-tle / one!” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot. “I am / sear-ching / e-very / where.” It has four feet + one syllable and the streessed is in the end of each foot except the last foot.
The first two stanzas which are Iambic tetrameter have the stressed in the end of the sentence. It may be because the writer want to show about the begining of the image that will he show. He wants us to aware and focus about what is happened. The rest lines are also iambic but the last syllable which have to contain stressed disappears. It may be because the tragedy is started. He want to show us the sadneess and the sympathy.
