Lady Lazarus consists of 84 lines that are all grouped into 28 triplets. It is free rhyme with most rhyming coming within lines. The poem starts out by saying "I have done it again" refering to killing someone. First her father when she wasa chuild, then the attempt to take her own life when she was in college, and I beleive the third is talking about her soon to be third and final attempt.
Within the poem she makes a handful of references towards nazis and connecting them father. She even refers to the devil in line 79. She had made earlier references to Lucifer in lines 64 and 63 when she capitalizes Herr Doktor and Herr Enemy.
There is a feeling of resentment and bitterness to not only her father but other men in her life. I thinks some of the anger is for her husband as well because he uis just another male figure in her life that seems to have done nothing to help better her.
The end of the poem ends in a way to show that she has become strong because of the men around her not helping her. She has found her own way to gte past struggles withou their help.
"Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air"
That is the filan triplet in the poem and it is saying how strong hse has become so these men that try to bring her down should fear her because she knows that she does not need them.
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