This is an analysis of Someday’s Here by Shel Silverstein.

Well I've told you someday I'd have a lotta money
And you would see me grinnin' from ear to ear…

Browse poems by Shel Silverstein

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXbbacaXcbXbXd dXXb
  • Stanza lengths: 17,4,
  • Metre: 1111111101010 11111100101 101100110101010 111001 11111111101111 0010111010101 111100111101011001 11111001101011010 1111011 11110111101011010 11100101110101010 1111111111010 101101001101 100110111110100 11001 0100 111101 111111111001 10101011011 1111011110101 1100111001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

here, you, i

Epiphora

here, me