New York ? Roses are red, violets are blue, “The Bachelorette” is history, and Charlie is, too.

Proving a stuffed whale and treacly prose are the key to at least one girl’s heart, television’s most eligible bachelorette, Trista Rehn, fell for Ryan, the sensitive firefighter who tickled her fancy with poems.

Ryan Sutter, 27, of Vail, Colo., immediately dropped to his knees to ask the woman he’d known for six weeks to marry him. She said yes.

Hunk Charlie Maher was sent away, no doubt disappointing Rehn’s star-struck family.

It was all the stuff of fairy tales, and ABC was certainly hoping Wednesday’s last episode of “The Bachelorette” was a happy ending in the ratings, too.

The reality series has faded in appeal compared to Fox’s juggernaut, “Joe Millionaire,” which averaged nearly 35 million viewers Monday. But it still was ABC’s most popular show last week. The network stretched the finale of “The Bachelorette” to two hours, and it unfolded like a 500-page Hallmark card.

“The fact that I’m falling so hard for two guys at the same time is very stressful to me,” said Rehn, the 29-year-old physical therapist and former Miami Heat cheerleader, setting up Wednesday’s cliffhanger ending.

Sutter was shy, but won points by privately asking Rehn’s father if he could propose to her daughter.

Trista Rehn and Ryan Sutter