i need a line by line explanation of the poem voice of the rain

Dear student,

The poet asks the rain," Who are you?" The rain replied with a strange answer, which the poet further describes in the poem.
The rain replies by saying that she is the poem of the earth. The rain further elaborates that it rises/ originates from the earth and bottomless sea and reaches the sky in a different shape but it in a way remains the same.

The rain says that it comes down to was away dust particles in the air and droughts because without the rain, seeds cannot turn into plants.
The rain proudly states that it gives happiness and life to its own origin day and night, without fail. The rain nourishes and beautifies it.

The final two lines of Walt Whitman's poem "The Voice of the Rain" is an observation made by the poet. In the poem he personifies rain and provides it with human attributes.At the end of the poem he observes that the cyclical manner in which rain is generated from the Earth can be completed only by its return to the Earth. In other words it is like the love that has come back or has been requited. The rain that originated from the water bodies of the Earth, falls back on them in torrents, like a lover showers his affection on his lady-love. The rain is like a lover who keeps his promise and comes back to the Earth. The lines have been put in a bracket may be to show how the entire poem can be summed up into these three lines.

Regards

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