couplet

The lyrics, which are serviceable but unremarkable—“Oh, I need you, yes, it’s true / I wouldn’t be anywhere without you” is a representative couplet—don’t offset the sleepiness.

“Iambic pentameter, and a rhyming couplet, too,” she said, pleased with her effort.

A centuries-old Persian couplet often repeated in Indian-administered Kashmir translates to: "If there is a paradise on earth, it is here, it is here, it is here."

Austria has the best opening couplet of the year: "I'm an ocean of love / And you're scared of water."

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