The Great Fires Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDBBECFGCHIJKLMNMO OCPQRSMTU| Love is apart from all things | A |
| Desire and excitement are nothing beside it | B |
| It is not the body that finds love | C |
| What leads us there is the body | D |
| What is not love provokes it | B |
| What is not love quenches it | B |
| Love lays hold of everything we know | E |
| The passions which are called love | C |
| also change everything to a newness | F |
| at first Passion is clearly the path | G |
| but does not bring us to love | C |
| It opens the castle of our spirit | H |
| so that we might find the love which is | I |
| a mystery hidden there | J |
| Love is one of many great fires | K |
| Passion is a fire made of many woods | L |
| each of which gives off its special odor | M |
| so we can know the many kinds | N |
| that are not love Passion is the paper | M |
| and twigs that kindle the flames | O |
| but cannot sustain them Desire perishes | O |
| because it tries to be love | C |
| Love is eaten away by appetite | P |
| Love does not last but it is different | Q |
| from the passions that do not last | R |
| Love lasts by not lasting | S |
| Isaiah said each man walks in his own fire | M |
| for his sins Love allows us to walk | T |
| in the sweet music of our particular heart | U |
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