A fellow poet brought to my attention that my rhymes were not exact rhymes and she is correct. Some have mistakenly, over more contempoary years DEMANDED exact rhymes from the "Traditional" forms when that was never truly a requirement and was never truly demanded by the inventors of these forms, even taking into consideration the evolution of pronunciation. This demand, unfortunately has prostituted the rhymed forms because demanding forced exact rhyme robs creativity, which it surely does if carried to extremes. Close rhyme should be good enough. The same goes for meter which should have some artistic flexibility for all the same reasons. Just one example is Shakespeares Sonnet #116, one of his most famous.
Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a)
Admit impediments, love is not love (b)*
Which alters when it alteration finds, (a)
Or bends with the remover to remove. (b)*
O no, it is an ever fixèd mark (c)**
That looks on tempests and is never shaken; (d)***
It is the star to every wand'ring bark, (c)**
Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. (d)***
Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (e)
Within his bending sickle's compass come, (f)*
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (e)
But bears it out even to the edge of doom: (f)*
If this be error and upon me proved, (g)*
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (g)*
No matter what any linguist tries to tell you love and remove, nor come and doom, nor proved and loved, were ever exact rhymes. No matter what any meter mentor ever tried to tell you, the only lines that are true iambic pentameter are lines 3,5,7,8 (with allowance for the extra syllable),9,10,11,13 and 14--pretty much, but altering this poem would be akin to additional brush strokes on the Mona Lisa. Yet, prior to going abstract, some respectable semblace of traditional structure should exist. We can, given those thoughts, have more freedom for expression and creativity within structured forms. Cyndi and others have said that "forced" anything is not quality writing and I agree, but there is a happy medium where structure can be just as creative and wonderful.