The Fires Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCB BDBD DEFE GHGI JKJL MNMN ONON PNPN QRQR JNJN| Men make them fires on the hearth | A |
| Each under his roof tree | B |
| And the Four Winds that rule the earth | C |
| They blow the smoke to me | B |
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| Across the high hills and the sea | B |
| And all the changeful skies | D |
| The Four Winds blow the smoke to me | B |
| Till the tears are in my eyes | D |
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| Until the tears are in my eyes | D |
| And my heart is wellnigh broke | E |
| For thinking on old memories | F |
| That gather in the smoke | E |
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| With every shift of every wind | G |
| The homesick memories come | H |
| From every quarter of mankind | G |
| Where I have made me a home | I |
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| Four times a fire against the cold | J |
| And a roof against the rain | K |
| Sorrow fourfold and joy fourfold | J |
| The Four Winds bring again | L |
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| How can I answer which is best | M |
| Of all the fires that burn | N |
| I have been too often host or guest | M |
| At every fire in turn | N |
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| How can I turn from any fire | O |
| On any man's hearthstone | N |
| I know the wonder and desire | O |
| That went to build my own | N |
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| How can I doubt man's joy or woe | P |
| Where'er his house fires shine | N |
| Since all that man must undergo | P |
| Will visit me at mine | N |
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| Oh you Four Winds that blow so strong | Q |
| And know that his is true | R |
| Stoop for a little and carry my song | Q |
| To all the men I knew | R |
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| Where there are fires against the cold | J |
| Or roofs against the rain | N |
| With love fourfold and joy fourfold | J |
| Take them my songs again | N |
Rudyard Kipling
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