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Best Rhetorical Poems

Below are the all-time best Rhetorical poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rhetorical poems written by PoetrySoup members


Rhetorical Question
Can
you love
me without
the pain that love
brings?...

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Categories: rhetorical, love, romance,
Form: Lanterne



To Those That Say All Lives Matter When We Say Black Lives Matter
You say all lives matter
Bringing up all these colors 
Like red, white, orange, and blue
But when a black life is taken, where on Earth are...

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Categories: rhetorical, black african american, life,
Form: Rhyme
Whatever It Takes
When two choose each the other
Having decided this, their fate
A bond, a pledge, a vow replaces
That which, unchosen, cannot wait
Even when it requires a warrior...

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Categories: rhetorical, evil, love hurts, peace,
Form: Acrostic
Bombastic Speach
.

         Melodramatic 
           Rhetorical 
  ...

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Categories: rhetorical,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Kind of Reasonable Explanation
Do angels walk amongst us, to be honest I really don’t know 
     My answers may seem rhetorical, for what life...

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Categories: rhetorical, introspection, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rant With a Slant
I challenge you to a rhetorical
to prove me wrong else be unconventional 
‘bout a problem that’s gone systematical
everyone’s so radical and cynical   
once...

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Categories: rhetorical, culture, freedom, grief, love
Form: Monorhyme
Launching Lyrics
The depth of my intensity is unfathomed and unknown
I mutter a million tongues in a million different tones
Unleashing my mind, I spew prolific poetry
Draw a...

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Categories: rhetorical, slam,
Form: Free verse
Constipation Hell Worse Than Perdition
Less than twenty-four hours after dashing off a poem 
   explaining why i wanted to die
found me experiencing physical duress vis a vis,...

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Categories: rhetorical, angst, anxiety, blessing, conflict,
Form: I do not know?
Any Atheists Out There
I
I am with Liberty
At least I was
Until 2019, before the Virus
Now as in puerile freedoms
(Just words, not many will sacrifice for;
Most people go along, as...

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© Anil Deo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rhetorical, angst, atheist, christian, gospel,
Form: Verse
House of Anger
In the evening of my anger,
My blood has boiled to scorch,
The Ravens voice is rhetorical unto my answers
The clock will chime until it has ticked...

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Categories: rhetorical, angst, fantasy, imagination
Form: Free verse
King of the Nocturnal
Never a foe, life made you so.
Gazed at me from head to toe
as darkness sees light through the Owl.
Your nature is a rhetorical "how".
I sort...

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Categories: rhetorical, 1st grade, bird, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Overflow Infliction
Unswallowed lumps of lobster immodest
     Crustacean returns to pincers persimmon 
     Waitress whisk indiscernible clears linen 
...

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Categories: rhetorical, bullying, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought That Evades Fate
A Meandering Cocophony of Thought that Evades Fate

Contractual obligations toward your future self
Non-Factual invocations that deprive you of your health 
Actual comparisons between poverty and...

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Categories: rhetorical, fate, life,
Form: Rhyme
In the Event Of
In the event that I forget
what this poem is about
I refer you now to the birds
outside my window.
They are silent – it is a sound-proof...

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Categories: rhetorical, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Protest No War!
No War No Protest!

Colors of red, green, black, and white 
spread on the east side of one campus
On the other a wave of white, and...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rhetorical, courage, hope, war, world,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs