Correct Grammar and Poetic License

Cob it seems fine to me

It still bothers me, I dislike being perceived as illiterate.

Like using the word drownded instead of drown. lol

Although drownded often fits a rhyme better than drown. hehe

Even if it is wrong, it's a song, not a thesis. Who cares? There are great songs that aren't grammatical.

Whether it's ungrammatical depends on you. How are you using red? If red's just a singular subject such as a person or the color, you're good. If you're being posh and using red as a subject complement but at the beginning instead of the end, then you're wrong. "Cherries are red" can only be "red are cherries."

I could say "I am cherries that are ripe." It'd be a metaphor.

I like that, quite profound!

You'll be in good company.


http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/people/shakespeare-william-critical-opinion.html<br />

Not at all Cob; maybe a perfectionist but that's okay too

That is a very interesting tidbit about Shakespeare.

Thomas A. Edison was considered and apathetic and unteachable student.

Excerpt:
Young "Al" Edison went to school only a few months. His teachers thought he was very slow. Afterward his mother taught him at home. He then taught himself by reading constantly and trying experiments in the basement. He never attended any technical school, college or university. In later life, he said that his mother was the person most responsible for his success.
Edison had strong opinions about education. Most schools, he believed, taught children to memorize facts, when they ought to have students observe nature and to make things with their hands. "I like the Montessori method," he said. "It teaches through play. It makes learning a pleasure. It follows the natural instincts of the human being . . . The present system casts the brain into a mold. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning."

https://www.quora.com/What-was-Thomas-Edisons-academic-life-like

Comment:
To counter that, I am glad I have many facts committed to memory including my prepositions and hundreds (maybe a thousand) of song lyrics..

Einstein was also seen as a bit thick by his teachers.

165-year-old Walt Whitman Novel Discovered
https://www.usnews.com/news/iowa/articles/2017-02-25/165-year-old-walt-whitman-novel-discovered

Right. There's nothing ungrammatical about it. In this context, your reference is obviously to the word "red," not "cherries." The correct choice would indeed be "is," not "are."

Put another way, "red" is being used as a noun, here, not an adjective.

Become well read, pop your cherry and post all the lyrics.

Thank you Layman, that makes the most sense to me and I believe you are right.

Excellent!