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The poet continues enjoying even when the rain stops. The sun appears again and
the beautiful sunshine brightens up or sparkles each drop. The drops look like
glittering pearls. The poet hopes that this lovely sight continues to exist and adds to
the charms of nature.
Those who love rains wait for it throughout the year and keep ready to pounce upon
an opportunity to go out for picnic on a rainy day. Beautiful dark clouds render a
magical charm to the natural scenery. So on a rainy day people throng the picnic
spots. They take eatables with them so that longer stay at the spot doesn't deprive
them of their
The second stanza continues an elaboration of the effect of this glorious sight upon
the poet. While he considers the perpetual rebirth of nature, he is reminded sharply
that of his biblical “threescore years and ten,/ Twenty will not come again,” and
further calculation of his mortality, following the biblical allotment, ironically confirms
that he has “only” fifty years left. He becomes aware of his own transience in the
midst of nature’s splendor.
The change in the poet’s perception of the natural scene, but not of the scene itself,
is charted by the succeeding descriptions of the cherry tree. The second mention of
the tree, in the third stanza, as one of many “things in bloom,” though a conventional
representation of trees,...