<verse-group>
Verse Form for Poetry
Song, poem, or verse.
Remarks
Formatting of Verse: No serious attempt has been made to encode the look or visual form of poetry. But in acknowledgment that many journals do publish poems and that poems are a little like tables in that formatting may be significant, a few basic hooks have been added to indicate line styling and indentation:
- An @indent-level was added to <verse-line> element. to indicate the level of indentation of that line relative to the entire <verse-group>.
- The styling attributes @style, @style-type, and @style-type were added to both <verse-line> and <verse-line>. These style attributes need not be used to hold CSS styling information, although such usage is expected to be common.
Attributes
Content Model
<!ELEMENT verse-group %verse-group-model; >
Expanded Content Model
(label?, title?, subtitle?, (verse-line | verse-group)+, (attrib | permissions)*)
Description
The following, in order:
- <label> Label (of an Equation, Figure, Reference, etc.), zero or one
- <title> Title, zero or one
- <subtitle> Document Subtitle, zero or one
- One or more of any of:
- Any combination of:
- Ownership Elements
This element may be contained in:
Example 1
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<title>Buy or Lease?<break/>
Two Models for Scholarly Information<break/>
at the End (or the Beginning) of an Era</title>
<verse-group>
<verse-line>Some say the world will end in fire,</verse-line>
<verse-line>Some say in ice.</verse-line>
<verse-line>From what I’ve tasted of desire</verse-line>
<verse-line>I hold with those who favor fire.</verse-line>
<verse-line>But if it had to perish twice,</verse-line>
<verse-line>I think I know enough of hate</verse-line>
<verse-line>To say that for destruction ice</verse-line>
<verse-line>Is also great</verse-line>
<verse-line>And would suffice.</verse-line>
<attrib>—Robert Frost “Fire and Ice”</attrib>
</verse-group>
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governed by copyright law and the practices that have evolved around it.
Enter electronic information, where publishers deliver it with licenses and
new rules, a very different framework from copyright....</p>
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...Example 2
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<verse-group>
<title>A Cradle Song</title>
<verse-line>Sweet dreams, form a shade</verse-line>
<verse-line>O’er my lovely infant’s head;</verse-line>
<verse-line>Sweet dreams of pleasant streams</verse-line>
<verse-line>By happy, silent, moony beams.</verse-line>
<verse-line>Sweet sleep, with soft down</verse-line>
<verse-line>Weave thy brows an infant crown.</verse-line>
<verse-line>Sweep sleep, Angel mild,</verse-line>
<verse-line>Hover o’er my happy child.</verse-line>
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<attrib>William Blake</attrib>
</verse-group>
...Example 3
The @indent-level attribute can be used to control formatting:
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<verse-group>
<verse-line><sc>There</sc> was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,</verse-line>
<verse-line indent-level="1">The earth, and every common sight,</verse-line>
<verse-line indent-level="3">To me did seem</verse-line>
<verse-line indent-level="1">Apparell’d in celestial light,</verse-line>
<verse-line>The glory and the freshness of a dream.</verse-line>
<verse-line>It is not now as it hath been of yore;—</verse-line>
<verse-line indent-level="2">Turn wheresoe’er I may,</verse-line>
<verse-line indent-level="3">By night or day,</verse-line>
<verse-line>The things which I have seen I now can see no more.</verse-line>
<attrib>From Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” (1807).
</attrib>
</verse-group>
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