<verse-group>

Verse Form for Poetry

Song, poem, or verse.

Remarks

Design Note: No attempt has been made to retain the look or visual form of the original poetry.

Related Elements

Poetry may also be tagged with the <preformat> element if spacing is critical; however, most poetry should be tagged with the <verse-group> element, which may not preserve the exact indentation, but is more likely to be displayed in a proportional font.

Attributes

content-type Type of Content
id Document Internal Identifier
specific-use Specific Use
xml:base Base
xml:lang Language

Content Model

<!ELEMENT  verse-group  %verse-group-model;                          >

Expanded Content Model

(title?, subtitle?, verse-line+, attrib?, permissions?)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<app>, <bio>, <body>, <boxed-text>, <fig>, <license-p>, <named-content>, <p>, <sec>, <styled-content>, <table-wrap>

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

...
<verse-group>
<title>A Cradle Song</title>
<verse-line>Sweet dreams, form a shade</verse-line>
<verse-line>O&rsquo;er my lovely infant&rsquo;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&rsquo;er my happy child.</verse-line>
...
<attrib>William Blake</attrib>
</verse-group>
...

Article Authoring Tag Library NISO JATS Draft Version 1.1d3

Version of April 2015

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