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Poems are encoded with the <code>lg</code> and <code>l</code> elements.

<code>lg</code> (line group) contains one or more verse lines functioning as a formal unit.
Its <code>@type</code> attribute may have values <code>poem</code> and <code>stanza</code>.

<code>l</code> (verse line) contains a single, possibly incomplete, line of verse.


Example: https://correspondence.huygens.knaw.nl/documents/abf2028c-1ff5-4649-aaf0-38773cb4b29b

<pre>
<p>Vale nobilissime ac candidissime Hugeni, ac saepius istiusmodi mihi criminationes intende.
Scripsisti ista non serio, sed ad vexandum dogmaticum Philosophum, more Scepticorum.
Quod si non satisfecero, si perges scribere,
<lg type="poem">
<l>Hunc vatem fugit uterque Ducum,</l>
</lg>
regeram ego,
<lg type="poem">
<l>Barlaei mentem noscit uterque Ducum.</l>
</lg></p>
</pre>


Example: https://correspondence.huygens.knaw.nl/documents/8b1d5db7-297f-48b2-9d9d-e80e64fc1618

<pre>
<lg type="poem">
<lg type="stanza">
<l>Multa Muijdensem levat aura cycnum,</l>
<l>Tendit, Hugeni, quoties in altos</l>
<l>Nubium tractus. Ego apis Batavae</l>
<l>More, modoque</l>
</lg>
<lg type="stanza">
<l>Grata carpentis thyma, per laborem</l>
<l>Plurimum, circa placidas amoeni</l>
<l>Fluminis ripas, operosa parvus</l>
<l>Carmina fingo.</l>
</lg>
<lg type="stanza">
<l>Tu canes maiore poeta plectro</l>
<l>Principem, quandoque trahet feroces</l>
<l>Impares ferro, domitosque clivis</l>
<l>Nuper Iberos.</l>
</lg>
</lg>
</pre>