I like what's been said about "tiredness" and I'd agree that rhyme pairs can't exactly get tired, but a context can certainly get trite, and worse yet, predictable.
There was a game I played as a kid, and still do occasionally, called "Predict the country music lyrics." Country music tends to be characterized by constant use of couplets, long drawling pronounciation, and confining itself to the simple emotionally-charged but limited level 1 vocabulary. Not only can you predict the rhyme, but very often the whole line leading up to it, just by turning on the radio and listening:
"Oh I was standing in the rain"
will be followed by either "waiting for the train" or being in some kind of "pain."
In country music, hearts are always torn apart, people say that they're going away and so on.
Trouble is, there's power in simplicity, and a lot of these clicheed contexts are clicheed because someone is always hearing them for the first time, and for them, it will pack a greater punch.
Kevin
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