Poems

Poetry may appear in any document type. The verses of the poem should be styled with the appropriate style (e.g. Poetry, Verse, etc.) from your style palette, and the author should be styled with the style used for author names.

Where separate stanzas should be represented in the XML with a <verse-group> element, an empty paragraph styled "Poetry" should be inserted between the lines that begin and end their respective stanzas.

As exemplified in the above screenshot, the first three (3) lines of the poem are assigned the Poetry style as is the blank line before the final two (2) poetry lines. This format yields the following XML:

<verse-group>
<verse-line>An old willow with hollow branches</verse-line>
<verse-line>slowly swayed his few high bright tendrils</verse-line>
<verse-line>and sang:</verse-line>
</verse-group>
<verse-group>
<verse-line>Love is a young green willow</verse-line>
<verse-line>shimmering at the bare wood&rsquo;s edge.</verse-line>
</verse-group>