8.6 Indicating poetic stanzas

Poetry requires that whitespace be preserved, but without resorting to monospace. To indicate this, use the following markup, reminiscent of email quotations.

 > A line of Emacs verse;
 > forgive its being so terse.

You can also use the <verse> tag, if you prefer.

 <verse>
 A line of Emacs verse;
 forgive its being so terse.
 </verse>

Multiple stanzas may be included in one set of <verse> tags, as follows.

 <verse>
 A line of Emacs verse;
 forgive its being so terse.
 
 In terms of terse verse,
 you could do worse.
 </verse>