Why are violets blue and not violet?

i think they should be the color violet!

Why are violets blue and not violet?
Why are roses red and not rose?
Reply:it's all in the shading
Reply:They are both
Reply:Is scarlet red.

Is aqua blue.

Colors come in many shades.

Violets are a dark shade of blue, bordering on purple.
Reply:They have a range of colours. And some of them are violet
Reply:They do,..they come in several shades of color
Reply:they can be both colors....i think
Reply:Because it wouldn't work in the poem



Like this:

Roses are red

Violets are blue

Give me you money or I'll shoot you...



as opposed to:



Roses are red

Violets are violet

basically cause Glen wants them not to be blue...







see it just doesn't have the same flow...
Reply:I have violet violets out here, I think their pretty.
Reply:Because "violet" doesn't rhyme.