List the pairs of opposites found in the poem.

How is the cyclic movement of rain brought out in the poem? Compare it with what you have learnt in science.

Why are the last two lines put within brackets?

Notice the following sentence patterns.

Rewrite the above sentences in prose.

And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower.

Notice the following sentence patterns.

Rewrite the above sentences in prose.

I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain.