3 Metaphors for raindrop

Every raindrop on the pines was a prism; the mountain a brocade of blossom.

It is all so fine and orderly that it would seem that not only had the clouds and streams been kept harmoniously busy in the making of it, but that every raindrop sent like a bullet to a mark had been the subject of a separate thought, so sure is the outcome of beauty through the stormy centuries.

And this use of words is perfectly correct, in the physical or empirical sense of "in itself"; but in the transcendental sense the raindrops, also, together with their form and size, are themselves mere phenomena, the "in itself" of which remains entirely unknown to us.

3 Metaphors for  raindrop