Examples are from Documenting the American South at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Compiled by Natasha Smith
V.4.10 All verse, even poems without separate stanzas or verse paragraphs, should be contained within a line group element <lg>. This will assist with automated processing and retrieval.
Millie-Christine, 1851-1912
The History of the Carolina Twins: Told in "Their Own Peculiar Way" By "One of Them"
[Buffalo]: Buffalo Courier Printing House, [18--?].
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<lg type="stanza"> <l>I'm happy, quite, <sic corr="because">beeause</sic> I'm good;</l> <l>I love my Savior and my God.</l> <l>I love all things that God has done,</l> <l>Whether I'm created <hi rend="italics">two</hi> or <hi rend="italics">one.</hi></l> </lg>
FROM: George Moses Horton, 1798?-ca. 1880
The Poetical Works of George M. Horton: The Colored Bard of North Carolina: To Which is Prefixed the Life
of the Author, Written by Himself.
Hillsborough [N.C.]: Printed by D. Heartt, 1845.
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<lg type="stanza"> <l>Friendship, thou balm for ev'ry ill, </l> <l>I must aspire to thee; </l> <l>Whose breezes bid the heart be still, </l> <l>And render sweet the patient's pill, </l> <l>And set the pris'ner free. </l> </lg>
It is common to see informal divisions within poems, noted by a string of asterisks or periods. These should be encoded as <milestone>s with attribute values of UNIT="typography"and N= indicating the character used and its occurrence, <milestone unit="typography" N="******">.
FROM: Paul Hamilton Hayne, 1830-1886
Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne.
Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1882.
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<lg type="stanza"> <l>O'er the dim billows thundering, peals a boom</l> <l>Of the deep gun that bursteth as a knell,</l> <l>When the brave tender to the brave farewell—</l> <l>And strong arms bear a comrade to the tomb.</l> </lg> <milestone n=". . . . . " unit="typography"/>
It is strongly recommended that indentation is recorded using the REND attribute on the <l> element.
FROM: Lewis Carroll,
The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Eight Fits
New York: Macmillan and Co., 1891.
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<lg type="stanza"> <l>"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,</l> <l rend="indent">As he landed his crew with care;</l> <l>Supporting each man on the top of the tide</l> <l rend="indent">By a finger entwined in his hair.</l> </lg> <pb n="46" /> <lg type="stanza"> <l>"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:</l> <l rend="indent">That alone should encourage the crew.</l> <l>Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:</l> <l rend="indent">What I tell you three times is true."</l> </lg>
... may be rendered as such depending upon how the document is styled upon delivery:
"Just the place for a Snark!" the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.
--Page 46--
"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true."