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<verse-line> Line of a Verse
One line of a poem or verse.
Usage/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 the <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-detail were added to both <verse-line> and <verse-group>. These style attributes need not be used to hold CSS styling information, although such usage is expected to be common.
Attributes
Multi-lang Attributes
Models and Context
May be contained in
Description
Any combination of:
- Text, numbers, or special characters
- Emphasis Elements
- <alternatives> Alternatives For Processing
- Inline Display Elements
- Inline Math Elements
- Other Inline Elements
- Baseline Change Elements
- Internal Linking Elements
Content Model
<!ELEMENT verse-line (#PCDATA %verse-line-elements;)* >
Expanded Content Model
(#PCDATA | bold | fixed-case | italic | monospace | overline | roman | sans-serif | sc | strike | underline | ruby | alternatives | inline-graphic | inline-media | chem-struct | inline-formula | abbrev | index-term | index-term-range-end | named-content | styled-content | sub | sup | fn | target | xref)*
Tagged Samples
Verse group inside section
... <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’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> <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> ...
@indent-level
... <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> ...
Verse group has <attrib>
... <verse-group> <verse-line>When dredful swelling seas, through boisterous windy blastes</verse-line> <verse-line>So tosse the shippes, that al for nought, serues ancor sayle and mastes.</verse-line> <verse-line>Who takes not pleasure then, safely on shore to rest,</verse-line> <verse-line>And see with dreade and depe despayre, how shipmen are distrest.</verse-line> <verse-line>Not that we pleasure take, when others felen smart,</verse-line> <verse-line>Our gladnes groweth to see their harmes, and yet to fele no parte.</verse-line> <attrib>(Tottel 1903:159)</attrib> </verse-group> ...