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Thanks Lynn,

I am not speaking about perfect vs. near rhymes at all, but
"identity rhymes"

In my examples, I capitalized the STRESSED word, like Tampa Stan used to, showing where the stress was, NOT to show a perfect rhyme! Notice the last words in those examples are exactly the same in each couplet. THAT'S what I'm talking about IDENTITY rhymes, as in EXACTLY the SAME words, at the end of two rhyming lines.

"Now I am forlorn, Lynn
My insides tossed and torn, Lynn"

You see it alot with pronouns, but any identity word (used at the end of two lines in "rhyming proximity") can have an acceptable usage in a song, provided that it is unaccented, and PRECEDED by an ACCENTED rhymed word.

I agree with what you say about perfect rhymes and near rhymes, but that, alas, was not what I was talking about, and I am sorry that I was not clear enough in my post.

Mike