I just took the rhymes as given.
The one that's actually causing me grief, though, is opera/shop for a. For me OP-ra is two syllables, and shop-for-a is three, and being three, it's either asking me to put "a" in stressed position, or it's asking me to create a super-hypermetrical ending, with "shop" as the stressed syllable of the fifth (or whateverth) foot and two extra unstressed syllables.
But it looks like that's what everybody's doing....
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