Roses Are Red Poems · For Kids
Roses Are Red (The Dog Ate My First Draft)
Original poem © QuillOak — personal sharing is permitted.
“Roses Are Red (The Dog Ate My First Draft)” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/roses-dog-ate-my-poem
Quick facts
- Poem
- Roses Are Red (The Dog Ate My First Draft)
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 4 lines
- Form
- Roses Are Red Poems, Quatrain, Rhyming Poems
- Themes
- For Kids, Funny, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
Measured from the text on this page, not copied from a summary. Counts are approximate: syllables and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, which models General American English, so dialect, older pronunciation, and performance can all change what you hear.
- Shape
- 4 lines · one 4-line stanza
- End rhyme
- AABB — couplets.
- Line length
- Lines run 8-11 syllables (median 11). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
Want the rules this form is measured against? Read what makes roses are red poems, or run your own draft through the form checker to see the same measurements on your lines. How we measure · Report a mistake
Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalRoses Are Red (The Dog Ate My First Draft), authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 da94ee72c628424f…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.