Roger--
I think the beauty of some rhymes is that they don't rhyme perfectly--or that the inflection makes the rhyme seem a little "off." That is precisely what I like bout "breeze" and "beauties" and "laugh" and "path." To me, when poets started to play creatively with rhyme, that's where it gets fun and becomes more delightful to read.
Here's a stanza from a sonnet by Irish poet John O'Donahue:
The day’s last light frames her by the window,
A young woman with distance in her gaze,
She could never imagine the surprise
That is hovering over her life now.
He often uses really far-out rhymes, and I like this sort of thing. I don't think conventional, exact rhyme is bad, but I love it when poets push the limits of rhyme.
So yes: what is rhyme?
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