This is because the stanza form mirrors the content: the first two lines not rhyming suggests a disjunction that will never meet.
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The lyric of Beauty and the Beast is a limerick without a rhyme between the first two lines.
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The second two lines feel like a kind of progress towards harmony.
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And when the last line comes around and rhymes with the second line, you find that there was a long game, deep connection there all along.
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(This is why Howard Ashman was a genius, one of many we lost to America's indifference and inaction in the face of queer death.)
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The first surprise rhyme on line five is literally on the word "unexpectedly." Fucking show off.
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