Roses Are Red
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A modern standard version is:[3]
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Roses are red
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet
And so are you.
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Origins
The rhyme builds on poetic conventions that are traceable as far back as Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene of 1590:
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A rhyme similar to the modern standard version can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland, a 1784 collection of English nursery rhymes published in London by Joseph Johnson:[5]
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References
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- ↑ S. J. Bronner, American Children's Folklore (August House: 1988), p. 84.
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- ↑ Spenser, The Faery Queene iii, Canto 6, Stanza 6: on-line text Template:Webarchive
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