couplet

So fullness of that scene did have to be compressed down to that little couplet.

But I think that couplet is really powerful and it did what we wanted it to do.

Whether we are talking about 24 hours or a millennium, it is as chilling a rhymed couplet of stated political intent as one could envision.

“My heart stopped beating long ago / It pours out like a river,” one couplet goes.

The show’s straightforward plot trajectory is neatly summed up in a dismal couplet in the lament “Gethsemane,” in which Jesus finally resigns himself to his fate: “Then, I was inspired / Now I’m sad and tired.”