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Rhetorical Purpose Of A Poem

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The rhetorical purpose of this poem is to explain the emotions of people at the time through an indirect way. The author wanted to say what was on his mind without saying it directly. There are a multitude of great rhetorical patterns. Some of the more noticeable ones are the use of different types of words such as angry words, pain words, gospel words and more. He also uses a common rhyme scheme. Words such as we and our are too used. Repetitions don't with visual rhyme are also used as well. All of these are used skillfully to show the author's purpose. Using different types of words was very important to create a bettter but liked up to the author's purpose. Gospel words such as Christ and soul give us insight as to the group of people

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