Paeans to rain and the monsoon are not new in the subcontinent. Kalidasa’s Ritusamhara offers resplendent rhymes to rain, a ...

3. Don Paterson, “Rain.” The Scottish poet writes rhyming poems in regular forms, siphoning from Robert Frost an extreme nihilism that cancels almost any imaginable positive or affirmative claim.

He was a formalist who carried traditional poetic techniques like rhyme and meter forward ... offer a passing refuge from the rain, and Justice's poems offer similar refuge from worn-out ways ...

we need more rain every day" instead of the traditional rhyme. The origins of Rain, Rain date back to at least the 17th century in England and the most common version is "rain, rain, go away ...