Rhyming

Way back, a poem had to rhyme. Now-a-days a rhyming poem is kinda looked down on. Somebody told me that a poet in the search for words that do rhyme sometimes gets sidetracked and departs from his original thought. Seems like the real good poets of the past figured that one out okay. I was also told that even nursery rhymes lost track when making things rhyme. Like Mary, Mary, quite contrary. Maybe Mary wasn't contrary at all. Maybe she was nice and sweet. But none of those words rhyme with Mary. Now country-western song writers have a real advantage 'cause there are so many words in the dialect of country-western that rhyme. Like car, fire, tire, hair, even borrow in the c/w speak are car, far, tar, har, and bar. It just ain't fair. I mean far.