Yes Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEEFGEHIJKILMNKOI PQNNRSSKTUSEPPVWSXPN PSNSPYPMS| According to Culture Shock | A |
| A Guide to Customs and Etiquette | B |
| of Filipinos when my husband says yes | C |
| he could also mean one of the following | D |
| a I don't know | E |
| b If you say so | E |
| c If it will please you | F |
| d I hope I have said yes unenthusiastically enough | G |
| for you to realize I mean no | E |
| You can imagine the confusion | H |
| surrounding our movie dates the laundry | I |
| who will take out the garbage | J |
| and when I remind him | K |
| I'm an American that all has yeses sound alike to me | I |
| I tell him here in America we have shrinks | L |
| who can help him to be less of a people pleaser | M |
| We have two year olds who love to scream 'No ' | N |
| when they don't get their way I tell him | K |
| in America we have a popular book | O |
| When I Say No I Feel Guilty | I |
| 'Should I get you a copy ' I ask | P |
| He says yes but I think he means | Q |
| 'If it will please you ' i e 'I won't read it ' | N |
| 'I'm trying ' I tell him 'but you have to try too ' | N |
| 'Yes ' he says then makes tampo | R |
| a sulking that the book Culture Shock describes as | S |
| 'subliminal hostility withdrawal of customary cheerfulness | S |
| in the presence of the one who has displeased' him | K |
| The book says it's up to me to make things all right | T |
| 'to restore goodwill not by talking the problem out | U |
| but by showing concern about the wounded person's | S |
| well being ' Forget it I think even though I know | E |
| if I'm not nice tampo can quickly escalate into nagdadabog | P |
| foot stomping grumbling the slamming | P |
| of doors Instead of talking to my husband I storm off | V |
| to talk to my porcelain Kwan Yin | W |
| the Chinese goddess of mercy | S |
| that I bought on Canal Street years before | X |
| my husband and I started dating | P |
| 'The real Kwan Yin is in Manila ' | N |
| he tells me 'She's called Nuestra Se ora de Guia | P |
| Her Asian features prove Christianity | S |
| was in the Philippines before the Spanish arrived ' | N |
| My husband's telling me this | S |
| tells me he's sorry Kwan Yin seems to wink | P |
| congratulating me my short prayer worked | Y |
| 'Will you love me forever ' I ask | P |
| then study his lips wondering if I'll be able to decipher | M |
| what he means by his yes | S |
Denise Duhamel
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