This section of the guidelines will explain the elements that are used to mark up poetry. Poetry is writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm.
Poetry is cast in verse which in turn is set in lines.
The poetic line is to poetry what the sentence is to prose. A poetic line may consist of a single line of text ending in white space at the right or it may be extended with runover until some distinctive marker ends the line. End users will be able to choose whether line numbers are played or skipped. A simple poem with one stanza. A poem with even lines numbered.