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Flat LMNL

An example:

[sonnet [author}William Meredith{author]
  [title}Modern Love XXX{title]}
[octave}
[quatrain}
[line}[s}[phr}What are we first?{s]{phr] [s}[phr}First, animals;{phr]
  [phr}and next{line]
[line}Intelligences at a leap;{phr] [phr}on whom{line]
[line}Pale lies the distant shadow of the tomb,{line]{phr]
[line}[phr}And all that draweth on the tomb for text.{line]{phr]{s]
{quatrain]
[quatrain}
[s}[line}[phr}Into which state comes Love,{phr]
  [phr}the crowning sun:{phr]{line]
[line}[phr}Beneath whose light the shadow loses form.{line]{phr]{s]
[line}[s}[phr}We are the lords of life,{phr]
  [phr}and life is warm.{phr]{line]{s]
[line}[s}[phr}Intelligence and instinct now are one.{line]{s]{phr]
{quatrain]
{octave]
[octave}
[quatrain}
[s}[line}[phr}But nature says:{phr]
  [q}[phr}My children most they seem{line]
[line}When they least know me:{phr]
  [phr}therefore I decree{line]
[line}That they shall suffer.{phr]{q]{s]
  [s}[phr}Swift doth young Love flee,{phr]{line]
[line}[phr}And we stand wakened,{phr]
  [phr}shivering from our dream.{phr]{line]{s]
{quatrain]
[quatrain}
[line}[s}[phr}Then if we study Nature we are wise.{line]{s]{phr]
[s}[line}[phr}Thus do the few who live but with the day:{line]{phr]
[line}[phr}The scientific animals are they.{line]{phr]{s]
[line}[s}[phr}Lady,{phr] [phr}this is my sonnet to your eyes.{phr]{line]{s]
{quatrain]
{octave]
{sonnet]