Rhyme Schemes

Off rhymes founded on consonants are more literary than off rhymes founded on vowels (assonance). Vowels are shifty. Assonance is in the mouth, not the ear. It is performative. 

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Translators who translate poems that rhyme into poems that don’t rhyme solely because they claim keeping the rhyme is impossible without doing violence to the poem have done violence to the poem. They are also lazy. 

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Rhyme is an irrational, sensual link between two words. It is chemical. It is alchemical.

This is the bit where I rhyme some lines for the benefit of brinkmanship. Never. More A.E. Stallings musings on rhyme over at the Poetry Foundation. Personally, I don't have a problem with people using or not using rhyme, just people who avoid using it.