If you don’t think the rhyme has anything to do with rhythm and meter, try this: take a poem that has rhyming words on the ends of the phrases. Write it out as though it were prose (non-poetry, just write it as though it were regular sentences) and read it only according to the punctuation. Listen to how the rhyme makes the rhythm and meter stand out, even when you’re not reading to fit it. Fun, hm?

If you ever need to do a poetry reading out loud for an audience, I would highly suggest writing the poem out as a paragraph and only reading according to the punctuation. That’s a trick that makes a good reader an excellent one.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyme

Example- It’s enough to make me weep…

And all because of that little creep

I miss you in the morning;

I miss you late at night.

Just to think about you

Is my joy and my delight

In your life you won’t do well.

People judge you every day,

when you write what you have to say.

So spell words right, and That is That!

Or your job will be, “You want fries with that?”