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7 Roses Are Red / Violets Are Blue: Emotional History in Rhyme
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Published:March 2024
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Poor, unschooled Americans regularly included poems in their letters. They also included snippets of popular songs and ballads. In most cases, they repeated short rhymes that circulated by word of mouth and did not require any education to learn or to modify. Both Black and white beneficiaries of this oral tradition had no concern for an author and did not receive a stable text attributed to an individual poet. They favored vernacular rhymes that were essentially “owned” by the group. They most often trusted these anonymous folk poems to structure their communication of love. “When this you see / Remember me / Tho many a mile / a part we be” was the most widely circulated vernacular rhyme exchanged in their nineteenth-century letters. Memory defined caring in the working-class language of intimacy. The common feeling of anxiety over being forgotten when living outside their face-to-face community predominated in this popular poem.
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