open form, there is no set scheme to the rhyme pattern. However, there is a single ending sound constantly repeated without a set pattern throughout the work. She also connects pairs of lines at random just for the sake of making connections to make that particular stanza flow. At the same time, she chose blatantly not to rhyme in certain parts to catch the readers attention. There are a few instances where imagery is used to carry out Plaths expression. To cite a particular example that might lead a reader deduce their own ideas can be found in the last stanza: And the villagers never liked you. / They are dancing and stamping on you. This undoubtedly expresses her fathers death and burial but more importantly it states a certain humiliation she faced from everyone knowing what her father had died for, along with her own rage toward him. Another can be found in lines 24-25: I never could talk to you. / The tongue stuck in my jaw. The picture of someone being tongue-tied along with her statement in line 41: I have always been scared of you, demonstrate just that; she was fearful of her father. She also gives an image that provides the reader a view of how Plath physically viewed her father and chose a man that she states reminds her of him: A man in black with a Meinkampf look. As most victims or people with poor self-esteem, she chose to place herself in the same unpleasant life as she had had with her father by marrying a man that was just like him. She repeatedly talks of the color black expressing her dark perspective of her father and life in general. She also uses language that portrays darkness without using colors, for example in lines 71-73:If Ive killed one man, Ive killed two-The vampire who said he was youAnd drank my blood for a year.This passage eludes that she may or may not have actually killed her husband and in doing so conquered her father in a sense. Nevertheless, it demonstrates her dark perspective of...
