I think of end-rhymes as inflections for lines. For me it's the freshness of the lines as much the originality of the pairing that determines the quality of the rhyme. I think this has been said otherwise elsewhere. Just my take, is all.
Probably my favourite rhyme comes at the end of a Frost poem, Evening in a Sugar Orchard:
From where I lingered in a lull in March
Outside the sugar-house one night for choice,
I called the fireman with a careful voice
And bade him leave the pan and stoke the arch:
'O fireman, give the fire another stoke,
And send more sparks up chimney with the smoke.'
I thought a few might tangle, as they did,
Among bare maple boughs, and in the rare
Hill atmosphere not cease to glow,
And so be added to the moon up there.
The moon, though slight, was moon enough to show
On every tree a bucket with a lid,
And on black ground a bear-skin rug of snow.
The sparks made no attempt to be the moon.
They were content to figure in the trees
As Leo, Orion, and the Pleiades.
And that was what the boughs were full of soon.
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