This is a test of the Rhetorical Recognition System. Every gun that is fired, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Tricolonic phrases have three parts, all of which are related to the subject at hand.
It is found in many styles of prose and lends itself especially well to speeches. There is something felicitous in the rhythms of a neatly formed tricolon, which may be why Pres. Lincoln's sentence struck its audience so forcefully at the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg and sticks so tenaciously in our memories today. Traditional tricolon builds from the first through the third, either in impact or length-preferably both. Tricolon cresens is the name for a tricolonic phrase which sections grow progressively longer.