Poem

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Properties likely to be used by Poem

poemBody: the text of the poem
poemSection: a section, stanza, page, etc.
form: sonnet, sestina, villanelle, etc.
meter: iambic pentameter, trochaic trimeter, etc.
mode: confessional, spoken word, found, etc.
school: New Formalist, Modernist, Black Mountain, etc.
region: Northwest, Mid-West, Peru, etc.

Key Properties from CreativeWork

genre: Epic, Narrative, Lyric, Jazz, etc.
isPartOf: anthology, book, magazine, chapbook, advertisement, etc.

Key Properties from TextObject

wordCount: an integer
lineCount: an integer
media: collage, broadsheet, etc.

Examples

Example 1

Based on a simplified version found at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172106

Without microdata

<p>The Waking by Theodore Roethke</p>
<pre>
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.  
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?   
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?   
God bless the Ground!   I shall walk softly there,   
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?   
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do   
To you and me; so take the lively air,   
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.   
What falls away is always. And is near.  
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. 
I learn by going where I have to go.
</pre>
<span>Tags:
Iambic Pentameter,
Villanelle,
Northwest,
</span>
<div>Theodore Roethke, "The Waking" from Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. 
Copyright 1953 by Theodore Roethke.  
Used by permission of Doubleday, 
an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 
a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.</div>

With microdata

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Poem">
<p><span itemprop="title">The Waking</span> by <span itemprop="author">Theodore Roethke</span></p>
<pre itemprop="poemBody">
<span itemprop="poemSection">I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.  
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.</span>

<span itemprop="poemSection">We think by feeling. What is there to know?   
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.</span>

<span itemprop="poemSection">Of those so close beside me, which are you?   
God bless the Ground!   I shall walk softly there,   
And learn by going where I have to go.</span>

<span itemprop="poemSection">Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?   
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;   
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.</span>

<span itemprop="poemSection">Great Nature has another thing to do   
To you and me; so take the lively air,   
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.</span>

<span itemprop="poemSection">This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.   
What falls away is always. And is near.  
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. 
I learn by going where I have to go.</span>
</pre>
<p>Tags:
<span itemprop="meter">Iambic Pentameter</span>,
<span itemprop="form">Villanelle</span>,
<span itemprop="region">Northwest</span>,
</p>
<div>Theodore Roethke, "The Waking" from <span itemprop="isPartOf">Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke</span>.
 Copyright <span itemprop="datePublished">1953</span> by Theodore Roethke.  
Used by permission of <span itemprop="publisher">Doubleday</span>, 
an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 
a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.</div>
</div>

Example 2

Based on the simplified version found at The Poetry Foundation

Without microdata

<p>[Buffalo Bill's] by e.e. cummings</p>
<pre>
Buffalo Bill ’s
defunct
               who used to
               ride a watersmooth-silver
                                                                  stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
                                                                                                     Jesus

he was a handsome man 
                                                  and what i want to know is
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death
</pre>
<p>Tags:
New England,
Modern,
Free Verse,
</p>

With microdata

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Poem">
<p><span itemprop="title">[Buffalo Bill's]</span> by <span itemprop="author">e.e. cummings</span></p>
<pre itemprop="poemBody">
Buffalo Bill ’s
defunct
               who used to
               ride a watersmooth-silver
                                                                  stallion
and break onetwothreefourfive pigeonsjustlikethat
                                                                                                     Jesus

he was a handsome man 
                                                  and what i want to know is
how do you like your blue-eyed boy
Mister Death
</pre>
<p>Tags:
<span itemprop="region">New England</span>,
<span itemprop="school">Modern</span>,
<span itemprop="meter">Free Verse</span>,
</p>
</div>

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