They want instant gratification and they want to be called poets, when they are not. Quite often a word in the rhymes is footnoted, with the more accurate word listed in the footnote, rather than the text. You are missing the forest for the trees. If you look at the poetry sections you have listed, they show a remarkable harmony to the original Greek yet retain poetic form in rhyming English. This leads to . . .
Poetry is an art form.
It is meant to be beautiful, touching the soul. We agree that poetry is an art form. But we disagree that we have forced the text into a form in which is was not originally composed. This is where you are so wrong. The text is poetry in the Greek.