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Can you explain me the first four lines of the third stanza from the poem "Rain On The Roof" in English Beehive?

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Here the poet describes his mother. She is no longer alive. The poet says he remembers his memories with her. She used to call him darling and loved him dearly. She let him sleep till morning and have sweet dreams.

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Here, the poet introduces his mother. He says that he is dreaming of his mother. As he had told in the previous stanza that rain brings memories of the past – it is the memory of his mother who is no longer alive.
In the past, she used to love him a lot, she used to consider him a darling and she would let him sleep till daybreak and have sweet dreams.

The poet can still feel that his mother is looking at him as he listens to the song made by the raindrops falling on the rooftop of his room.
The sound of the rain makes him correlate his past with his present. That is why the poet is moved by the sound of the raindrops on the shingles of his room. Whenever he hears this sound it brings back memories of the past and he is reminded of his mother.

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