<verse-line>

Line of a Verse

One line of a 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:

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
indent-level Indentation Level
specific-use Specific Use
style Style (NISO JATS table model; MathML Tag Set)
style-detail Styling Detail
style-type Style Type
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  verse-line   (#PCDATA %verse-line-elements;)*             >

Expanded Content Model

(#PCDATA | email | ext-link | uri | inline-supplementary-material | related-article | related-object | hr | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | overline-start | overline-end | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | underline-start | underline-end | ruby | alternatives | inline-graphic | inline-media | private-char | chem-struct | inline-formula | tex-math | mml:math | abbrev | index-term | index-term-range-end | milestone-end | milestone-start | named-content | styled-content | fn | target | xref | sub | sup | x)*

Description

Any combination of:

This element may be contained in:

<verse-group>

Example 1

...
<sec>
<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&rsquo;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>&mdash;Robert Frost &ldquo;Fire and Ice&rdquo;</attrib>
</verse-group>
<p>Within living memory, our use of print (static) information has been
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>
</sec>
...

Example 2

The @indent-level attribute can be used to control formatting:
...
<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&rsquo;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;&mdash;</verse-line>
<verse-line indent-level="2">Turn wheresoe&rsquo;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&rsquo;s &ldquo;Ode: Intimations of Immortality&rdquo; (1807).
</attrib>
</verse-group>
...

Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.2 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of May 2019

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