America, like Hattie Carroll, is in 3/4 time, and therefore the lyrics have less single syllable words at the end of each line than songs in common time do. You either then have to use lots of feminine rhymes (multi-syllable words):
“In the courtroom of honour, the judge pounded his GAVEL,
To show that all’s equal, and the Courts are on the LEVEL.”
Or you can go for a Shakespearean style of blank verse, with a single rhyming couplet at the end, arguably to relieve the tension from the preceding dissonance. Does that apply to America? Arguably, yes, because the last lines of each run through of the main melody are:
“Michigan seems like a dream to me NOW,
It took me more hours to hitch hike from SagiNAW.”
“I’m empty and aching and I don’t know WHY
Counting the cars on the New Jersey TurnPIke…”