The above quote by Abraham Lincoln is an example of what is called parallelism.
Parallelism is a way to create patterns within your writing. This can of course be used in prose as well as poetry. Parallelism can be created by using the same grammatical structure in a series of sentences, and it can be created by having a series of lists. In the case of …
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