Analysis of One man's junk is another man's jewel

Mike D Johnson 1954 (Tallahassee, Fl)



One man's junk is another man's jewel.
One man's weapon is another man's tool.
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
One man's pain is another man's pleasure.
One man's black is another man's white.
One man's wrong is another man's right.
One man's joy is another man's pain.
One man's sunshine's another man's rain.
One man's night is another man's day.
One man's toil is another man's play.
One man's good is another man's bad.
One man's pleased is another man's sad.
One man's need Is another man's money.
One man's solemn another man's funny.
One man's ugly is another man's art.
One man's foolish is another man's smart.
If you look deep into your soul
You can be young, though you are old.


Scheme ABCCDDEEFFGGHHIIJK
Poetic Form
Metre 1111010110 1110101011 1111010110 1111010110 111101011 111101011 111101011 11101011 111101011 111101011 111101011 111101011 1111010110 1110010110 1110101011 1110101011 11110111 11111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 683
Words 125
Sentences 17
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 18
Lines Amount 18
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 525
Words per stanza (avg) 125
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Submitted on September 28, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Mike D Johnson

Mike D Johnson, AKA MJ Johnson, was born in Tallahassee, Florida on August 4th 1954. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia high school of Music and Art from 1969 to 1972 where he studied Fine Art. He also studied Fine Art and Architecture at Cooper Union in the East Village of New York city. Mike has been writing poetry for 60 years and has no intention of stopping any time soon. He received the "Outstanding Achievement in Poetry" award from the International Society of Poets in 2005. He now resides in Albany, Georgia. more…

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