How Does Lincoln Use Metaphors In The Gettysburg Address

In the Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln it is about him trying to say sorry about how the people died and is talking about it in 3 different ways. It is about the past, present and then the future it is 271 words long and only in three paragraphs written in Pennsylvania. Based on the union of the battle and the southern. All together 51,000 troops died, union 23,000 union troops die and then 28,000 southern troops die. This letter is talking an apology and explanation of their deaths to their troops and families. He starts off the first paragraph talking about the past and then he starts calling them fathers and uses metaphors about bringing the fourth of them on the nation. He starts explaining all of this in one long sentence and it