How does Lincoln's use of parallel structure in this passage affect the speech? With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations. -Second inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln - It distracts the listener from the topic.
- It stresses the importance of unity.
- It compares the war to a doctor's work.
- It makes the sentence longer than the rest.​