Analysis of Shiro



A military family has a cat
Deaf, declawed, defenseless
They have to PCS
So they through her out
With the stray cats
She'll never survive
She gets in a small fight
Gets scratched on the nose
Some people find her
They can't keep her
I wanted a cat
I looked in the newspaper
And their is a add
For a cat snowy and white
I meet her
I instantly want her
She comes home with me
I name her Shiro
White in Japanese
A few months later
Shiro gets sick
We can't find the cure
I take her with me to Germany
For I must move
The vets here are smarter
I believe its true
They found the cure
And now Shiro is fine
Not sick anymore
She chases birds like a pouncing tiger
Lays out in the sun
Shiro is now
As I'm pleased to say
Happy and Content


Scheme ABCDEFGHIIAIJGIIKICILMKNIOMPQIRSTU
Poetic Form
Metre 0100100101 11010 11111 11101 1011 11001 110011 11101 11010 1110 11001 110010 01101 1011001 110 110010 11111 1101 1001 01110 111 11101 110111100 1111 011110 10111 1101 01111 1101 1101101010 11001 111 11111 10010
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 694
Words 150
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 34
Lines Amount 34
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 572
Words per stanza (avg) 150
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Submitted on March 15, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Elizabeth Hope Ralston

Hi, I am a preteen who loves poetry and is entranced by natural beauty. My poems reflect how I am feeling at the moment, or how I am thinking at the time. more…

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