Question

Summary of the song of the rain poetry

Answer 1

Song of the Rain” by Khalil Gibran is an autobiography of the rain.  The poem consists of 10 stanzas. Each of these stanzas is again made up of variable numbers of lines. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 9th stanzas are made up of 3 lines. The 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 10th stanzas are made up of 4 lines. The 5thstanza is made up of 5 lines. Hence, the entire poem consists of 37 lines in total. This poem is written in the first person, and the speaker of the poem is rain. Rain is personified in this poem and is described as something divine and characteristic of gods. Here in this article, we are going through a detailed line by line summary of the poem ‘Song of the Rain’.