英美人,或出於地理原因(他們是海洋民族,善水,而我們是大陸民族,不善水)或文化原因(基督教有以水洗禮的傳統,水包括雨水就有純潔淨化、清新脫俗之象徵),寫雨的詩風格就不一樣了。像蘇格蘭人Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)的那首叫"Rain"的詩,把雨寫得如此平常,它只是茫茫世界的一部分:
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.