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Classic and Contemporary Poetry

THE FATHER by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: THAT WAS HIS SORT
Last Line: AND CUT HIM SHORT.
Subject(s): FATHERS; WORLD WAR I; FIRST WORLD WAR;
That was his sort.
It didn't matter
What we were at
But he must chatter
Of this and that
His little son
Had said and done:
Till, as he told
The fiftieth time
Without a change
How three-year-old
Prattled a rhyme,
They got the range
And cut him short.



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