<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:

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 look-and-feel, 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
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-group  %verse-group-model;                          >

Expanded Content Model

(label?, title?, subtitle?, (verse-line | verse-group)+, (attrib | permissions)*)

Description

The following, in order:

This element may be contained in:

<answer>, <app>, <app-group>, <bio>, <body>, <boxed-text>, <disp-quote>, <explanation>, <fig>, <glossary>, <license-p>, <named-content>, <notes>, <option>, <p>, <question>, <question-preamble>, <ref-list>, <sec>, <styled-content>, <supplementary-material>, <table-wrap>, <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

...
<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>
...

Example 3

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>
    ...

Example 4

Verse group with an attribution:
...
<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>
    ...

Journal Publishing Tag Library NISO JATS Version 1.3d1 (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2019)

Version of October 2019

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