Hi everyone, I am hoping to get some insight into the ee cummings poem "when god lets my body be", quite a famous one I'm sure most people know, here it is for reference:

when god lets my body be

From each brave eye shall sprout a tree
fruit that dangles therefrom

the purpled world will dance upon
Between my lips which did sing

a rose shall beget the spring
that maidens whom passion wastes

will lay between their little breasts
My strong fingers beneath the snow

Into strenuous birds shall go
my love walking in the grass

their wings will touch with her face
and all the while shall my heart be

With the bulge and nuzzle of the sea

As you can hear there are many clear rhymes here, which gives the poem so much of its delight and ocean wave like quality. Except that, especially when read aloud, wastes and breasts, and also grass and face are not clear rhyme matches.

what is going on here? Is it a convention to twist rhyme like this, is cummings doing something intentional, or is the reader / speaker supposed to overlook this? It really jumps out when reading it out loud. Do other poems have auditory glitches like this and are poetry listeners/readers expected to sort of roll with them like suspension of disbelief? Or are they just imperfections? Hard to imagine cummings wasn't very deliberate here. Am I just being uptight and should instead appreciate one of the most beautiful poems ever written and not bother myself with such? Really curious...

Any insight appreciated!
- Will