Monday Morning Poem: Monotone

In honor of today's rainy weather:

MONOTONE

THE monotone of the rain is beautiful,

And the sudden rise and slow relapse

Of the long multitudinous rain.

The sun on the hills is beautiful,

Or a captured sunset sea-flung,

Bannered with fire and gold.

A face I know is beautiful--

With fire and gold of sky and sea,

And the peace of long warm rain.

Carl Sandburg

What I love about this poem is how Sandburg repeats the same few images and words but manages to make them mean something different in each stanza.