Just for the record, I never suggested that love rhymed with croft, or axe rhymed with fire, but I do agree that most people expect rhymes to be clean, with both the vowels and the ending consonants to be identical (as in moon and June). Where they are often wrong though is to suggest that there are no rhymes at all, just because there are none of their preferred type of rhyme used.

When I was a teenager and first heard Paul Simon’s Leaves that Are Green, I always thought the chorus was weak because it lacked perfect rhymes, but it is actually laced with other types of rhyme:
And the leaves that are green (assonance rhyming ee sound)
Turn to brown (consonance rhyming n sound)
And they wither in the wind (alliteration with wi sound),
And they crumple in your hand (consonance rhyming nd sound).