Now the speaker experiences love, he is “among it” (16), and his perspective has changed. Love is no longer irregular and uneven, it has now stabilized and settled into lines. The trick is to determine the direction of these lines and find a path through the maze of possibilities. The boat has become a train and the journey to find love is a map that goes in all directions. That it is “underground…hidden” (17) implies that it is still not easy to find or track. Like the stars in the third stanza, we must learn to read the signs. The absence of a “scale” (18) confirms the incommensurability of love and echoes the mathematical theorem that this poem hopes to define. Up to this point the speaker has focused on his own conception of love and, as in previous stanzas, there is a change of ideas in the second part of the stanza. The focus shifts away from the speaker to include everyone and how love is a part of every facet of life. It takes us to work, it gets us out at night, and it takes us home to our beds. These rooms are “crumpled” (21), love has taken on a physical dimension and becomes a more concrete concept for the