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Sutton quotes liberally from the "flood" of domestic conduct books of the period, including some rhymed couplets from the wildly popular manual of Jacob Cats, such as (in my translation): "A man obeys the law of the land; a woman obeys the will of her man."
These lyrics have been composed by a committee consisting of, in the French original, Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel, with the addition, for the English version, of Herbert Kretzmer, aided by James Fenton--this last person being a first-rate poet and arts critic, well known to readers of the New York Review of Books . From this assemblage has come more lyrics than you would think possible in an evening's entertainment--wordy rhyming couplets pouring outward from the stage in a ceaseless gush, until you feel you have been drenched (as you will see, if you click ).
In couplets and the "beheaded" (first syllable omitted) four-foot iambic line, familiar from "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," he speaks his mind directly and eloquently about feeling love ardently when no longer a youth.
The instruments are brought together in mantinada songs with rhyming couplets of lyrics.
In "Adam's Curse," Yeats writes in apparently effortless couplets, demonstrating what he says about writing--what is demanding is made to look natural and easy.