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>Too many words end in vowels so rhyming isn't clever
In Portuguese we work around this creating a distinction between poor rhyme and rich rhyme. Poor rhyme is the rhyme between words of the same grammatical class or with the same suffixes (think rhyming mindless with blindless), rich rhyme is the opposite.
The use of metre is also commonplace in all poetry except modernist. In Portuguese metric instead of just counting syllables in the traditional way we use the concept of poetic syllables based on the actual phonology, contractions and stressing patterns.