What is meant by "He took in rhyme" in the poem "Laugh and Be Merry" by John Masefield?

In John Masefield's poem "Laugh and Be Merry" the line "He
took in rhyme" occurs in the following stanza:

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Laugh and be merry: remember, in olden
time.
God made Heaven and Earth for joy He took in a rhyme,
Made
them, and filled them full with the strong red wine of His mirth
The splendid
joy of the stars: the joy of the
earth.

The poem is written in
four stanzas with the following rhyme
pattern:

a,a,b,b

c,c,d,d

e,e,f,f

g,g,h,h

The
poem is written with end rhyme, meaning the end words rhyme with each other. The stanzas
are written in quatrains, meaning four line stanzas.

As for
the meaning of the line "He took in rhyme", it could simply be looked at as Masefield's
way of creating the rhyme scheme specific to the poem. The word "rhyme" simply rhymes
with the previous line's ending word "time."

Another way
one could interpret the meaning behind the line is that rhymes are historically meant to
be perfect. God, being perfect, desired a perfect place for mankind when creating the
earth.

One last way to examine the meaning of the line is
to look at a very simplistic reason: Once created, God was able to "sit back and relax"
by entertaining himself with a rhyme.