"Roses Are Red" is a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. It has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants.
A modern standard version is:
Origins
The rhyme builds on poetic conventions that are traceable as far back as Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene of 1590:
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: