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.

If whitespace is relevant to the poem’s formatting and should be preserved, the style for preformatted text (if available) may be used rather than "Poetry" or equivalent. Please refer to the documentation on the DTD (available at http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/tag-library/n-qu60.html) for guidelines on using "Poetry" versus "Preformatted Text".

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:

This example 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>

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