Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue
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This is the stereotypical poem. Its origins are unknown, but may, according to Wikipedia, be traced to these lines from Sir Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:
It was upon a Sommers shynie day, |
"Blew" is an old spelling of "blue". Both roses and violets exist in varieties of many colours. Viola sororia and Viola odorata are the bluest violets; red roses are hybrid teas of the genus Rosa.
It has often been parodied. For a selection of such parodies and variants mostly written by tropers, see the Quotes page.
Comic Books
Roses are red —The Adventures of Captain Jack
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Fan Works
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Film
Roses are red, —Colin, Greenfingers
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Cirrhosis are red, |
Roses are red, —Tom, 500 Days of Summer
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Literature
Roses are red |
Raseuse arrête, valet de Tsar bat loups —Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames[1]
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Roses are red, —R. L. Stine, "Broken Hearts"
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Live-Action TV
Roses are red |
Roses are red —The Champ, Police Squad!!
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Violets are blue —Carey Martin, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
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Roses are red —Bob Pinciotti, That '70s Show
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Roses are red —Deacon Jones, G Vs E
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Roses are red —Maris Crane, Frasier
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Music
Roses are red, yes, and violets are blue. —Zoe's Adventures Under Ground, "River Rise Over"
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Roses are red, —Roger Miller, "Dang Me"
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Roses are red, violets are blue —Bob Dylan (no, really), "Where Teardrops Fall"
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Roses are red, my love. —Bobby Vinton, "Roses Are Red (My Love)"
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Roses are red —Aqua, "Roses Are Red" (Different song, same title.)
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Violets are blue —Lil Wayne, "I Feel Like Dying"
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The rose is red, —George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin & Gus Kahn, "So Are You"
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Roses are red —Psaltina, Kids Praise 3: Funtastic Family!
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Roses are red —Voltaire, "The Chosen"
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For Jean, Jean, roses are red. —Oliver, "Jean (Theme from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)"
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Newspaper Comics
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Blue is the violet, —Zits
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Periodicals
Roses are red —Bullseye, Entertainment Weekly, Issue #1197
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Roses are red —Mad Magazine, "A Valentine to all our readers", #133
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Video Games
Roses are gray —Forsaken male /silly emote, World of Warcraft
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Roses are red —Gargarensis, Age of Mythology
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Violets are blue —A book of pirate poems, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
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Roses are red —Eriko, Revelations Persona
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Roses are red —Graffiti written below an over-the-top poem in Left 4 Dead
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Web Comics
Roses are red, —Sven Bianchi, Questionable Content #1189
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Roses be red, —Monique, Sinfest February 2, 2000: Beat Poet 2
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Roses are red —Fuchsia, Sinfest May 18, 2009: Love Poetry
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Roses are red —Cinna the Poet, Hark! A Vagrant (#307)
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You need a poem? Fine! —Fred Macintire (advising Lisa), Something*Positive
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Roses are red, —Ode to Shutting Up by Katie, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal 2003-02-26
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Web Original
Roses are red —First verse of the Red vs. Blue theme
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Roses are red, —Jimmy Stewart (supposedly), How It Should Have Ended: Its a Wonderful Life
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roses = '#ff0000'; —Chaos Computer Club
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Roses are red, —Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, reviewing Saint's Row 2
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Roses are red. —[1]
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Roses are red, —YouTube comments
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Roses are red, —YouTube comments
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Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, —This Very Wiki, on the Petal Power page
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Western Animation
"Roses are red, violets are blue." —Dot Warner, Animaniacs
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Roses are red, —Roy Rooster, Garfield and Friends
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Roses are blue —Patrick Star, SpongeBob SquarePants
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Roses are red, —Heffer Wolfe, Rocko's Modern Life
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The movies are gray —Heinz Doofenshmirtz, Phineas and Ferb
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Roses R Red —Intro to the poetry segment of Cartoon Planet
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Roses are red, —Looney Tunes, "Hollywood Canine Canteen"(1946)
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Roses are red, —Telegram delivered by Bugs Bunny, "Buckaroo Bugs" (Bugs then finished the line by shouting it in the recipient's face. The final word is of course, STINK!)
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Roses are red, —Hans, The Penguins of Madagascar
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Roses are red, —Mr. Morton, Schoolhouse Rock
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Roses are red, —The Populars, KaBlam!
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Robotnik is rotten, —Sonic the Hedgehog, in his love letter/poem parody to Breezie, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
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- ↑ The editor, Luis d'Antin van Rooten, explains this as "a description of an incident at the Russian Imperial court", but the French text is better pronounced than translated.
- ↑ Calvin sends Susie this note to taunt her after she gets in trouble for talking in class, provoking her into writing another note and getting in trouble again
- ↑ Jason's Valentines to Paige accidentally get switched with Roger's to Andy. Hilarity Ensues
- ↑ The author is looking for a word that rhymes but is less "trite"
- ↑ Or, in the Updated Rerelease, "But I don't want brains"
- ↑ referring to the Ghost Writer's Quantum Keyboard