Stan: You the man. Right as usual.

I wrote something once: "great lines make great rhymes."

Sometimes you can rhyme "love" and "above" or even "dove" or "you," "blue," and "true" and it just feels so right in the context of the line, nobody, including jaded publishers feel anything except that it's exactly what the line needed as a rhyme.

Other times, you can get all crafty and come up with some sexy off rhyme and it ends up sounding all crafty and rings hollow. Or not--it's a great near rhyme!!

Something nobody's commented on though. If the note the rhyme is falling on is held out by the singer, they tend to hold on the vowel sound in the rhyming syllable, so the near rhyme ends up "sounding" like a perfect rhyme to the listener's ear. Here's a perfect example: chorus from John Denver's "Country Roads"

Country ro.....ads
Take me ho.....me
To the place I belon....g
West virginia, mountain momma
Take me ho...me
Country ro...ads

Where I put the dots is where the singer holds out the vowel sound tricking our ear into "feeling" that all these rhymes are musical and natural. On the other hand, if you sang the words quickly (with the ending consonantal sounds), I suspect the song wouldn't have quite been the iconic career-maker it was for JD (may he RIP).

You can see more on my personal "arsenal" of near rhyming tricks here .