METAPHORS

STINGING RAIN AND CHILL AUGUST WINDS

HEAVY RAIN PATTERS ON THE (BAMBOO) LEAVES

THE HAZE OF THE RAIN

GRAY MORNINGS OF RAIN

THE RAIN POURED IN TORRENTS

TORRENTS OF RAIN SWEEP THE SIDEWALKS CLEAN

WHERE RAIN IS A PHANTOM

SPITTING RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS

A TIME OF GRAY MISTS AND STEADY RAIN

THE STEADY COLD RAIN

SPRING RAIN WHISPERS

THE HEAT GAVE WAY TO DISMAL RAIN

IN A FINE FALLING MIST

SCANT RAINS FALL SWEET

HIDDEN IN THE RAIN

I STOOD IN A DRIVING RAIN

A WALK IN THE RAIN

THE SMELL OF THUNDER HANGS IN THE AIR

WIND AND RAIN RATTLED THE WINDOWS

RAIN RATTLED ON THE WINDOW PANES

A GRAY, LIGHTLY RAINING MORNING IN JUNE

RAIN WASHED / WIND SWEPT

LATE AFTERNOON MISTS

GRUMBLE OF THUNDER

GRAY AND DRIZZLY

IN THE POURING RAIN

ON A RAINY AFTERNOON

CHILLY DRIZZLE

A NUMBING RAIN

IN THE RAIN WASHED LIGHT OF SUMMER

RAINY DAYS AROUND THE FIRE

RAIN DANCED ACROSS THE LAKE

MY RAIN SOAKED SKIN

RAINDROPS THE SIZE OF DIMES PELTED DOWN

THE NIGHT SEEMED TO SOUND ONLY OF WATER

THE RAIN IS BOTH A FADING MEMORY AND A DISTANT PROMISE

SIMILES

THE HEAVENS POUR RAIN THICK AS DRAPERY




Love Poem Metaphors and Similes

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  • metaphor; A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison, as in “a sea of troubles” or “All the world's a stage” (Shakespeare). One thing conceived as representing another; a symbol: “Hollywood has always been an irresistible, prefabricated metaphor for the crass, the materialistic, the shallow, and the craven” (Neal Gabler).

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  • simile; A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in “How like the winter hath my absence been” or “So are you to my thoughts as food to life” (Shakespeare).

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