"April rain Song" by Langston Hughes is about April rain. This poem has a lot of figurative speech. . Personification is the most figurative speech in this poem. Personation is shown in lines 1 2 3 and 5. Other figures of speech is repetition. There are two lines that are repeated over and over in this poem. “Let the rain” is one and the other is “The rain”. This poem is free verse because it has no rhyme. This poem reminds me of sitting on my porch watching, hearing and smelling the April rain showers.

April Rain Song


Let the rain kiss you
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops
Let the rain sing you a lullaby
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk
The rain makes running pools in the gutter
The rain plays a little sleep song on our roof at night
And I love the rain.