## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <lg1>

`<lg1>` | (line group) contains a first-level (i.e. largest) group of verse lines functioning as a formal unit e.g. a stanza, refrain, verse paragraph, etc.
Attributes | Global attributes and those inherited from comp.verse, divn

Example

    <lg1 n="VIII" type="stanza">
       <lg2 type="sestet">
          <l>In the first year of Freedom's second dawn</l>
          <l>Died George the Third; although no tyrant, one</l>
          <l>Who shielded tyrants, till each sense withdrawn</l>
          <l>Left him nor mental nor external sun:</l>
          <l>A better farmer ne'er brushed dew from lawn,</l>
          <l>A worse king never left a realm undone!</l>
       </lg2>
       <lg2 type="couplet">
          <l>He died &dash; but left his subjects still behind,</l>
          <l>One half as mad &dash; and t'other no less blind.</l>
       </lg2>
    </lg1>

Module | Declared in file teivers2.dtd; Base tag set for Verse: enabled by TEI.verse
Class | comp.verse; divn
Data Description | contains verse lines or nested line groups only, possibly prefixed by a heading.
May contain | addSpan alt altGrp anchor cb certainty delSpan fLib fs fsLib fvLib fw gap head index interp interpGrp join joinGrp l lb lg2 link linkGrp milestone pb respons span spanGrp timeline
May occur within | argument body castList div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 epigraph epilogue metDecl performance prologue set

Declaration

    <!ELEMENT lg1 %om.RO;
    ((%m.Incl;)*, (head, (%m.Incl;)*)?,((l|lg2),(%m.Incl;)*)+)>
    <!ATTLIST lg1
          %a.global;
          %a.divn;>

See further | 9.2 Structural Divisions of Verse Texts

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