Extra Credit- It's Raining, It's Pouring

It's raining, it's pouring,

The oceans are storing

Water from the falling rain

While thunderclouds are roaring.

The rain now is stopping,

The rain's no longer dropping.

Sun comes out and soaks up water

Like a mop that's mopping.

The water's still there now,

But hidden in the air now.

In the clouds it makes a home

Until there's rain to share now.
It's raining, it's pouring…

by Meish Goldish

Weather is definetely used in the poem because it is a poem about rain! The poet's knowledge of weather enhances the poem because without it, the last verse of the poem would be not be there since you would have to know something about metereology to have written it. The type of weather that is discussed in the poem is rain. The poem would be not the same without the mention of weather because the whole poem has to do with rain.

The literary techniques that are used in the poem in regards to weather is are personification ("while thunderclouds are roaring..."), and a similie ("Like a mop that's mopping..."). This poem does not really further my knowledge of weather because in the last paragraph the author talks about how the rain collects in clouds until it is really to fall again, and I already learned that in science class.