.. role:: title

Text before block.

| Lend us a couple of bob till Thursday.
| I'm absolutely skint.
| But I'm expecting a postal order and I can pay you back
  as soon as it comes.
| Love, Ewan.

This example illustrates the nesting of line blocks, indicated by the initial indentation of new lines:

Take it away, Eric the Orchestra Leader!

| A one, two, a one two three four
|
| Half a bee, philosophically,
|     must, *ipso facto*, half not be.
| But half the bee has got to be,
|     *vis a vis* its entity.  D'you see?
|
| But can a bee be said to be
|     or not to be an entire bee,
|         when half the bee is not a bee,
|             due to some ancient injury?
|
| Singing...


"To Ma Own Beloved Lassie: A Poem on her 17th Birthday", by
Ewan McTeagle (for Lassie O'Shea):

.. line-block::

        Lend us a couple of bob till Thursday.
        I'm absolutely skint.
        But I'm expecting a postal order and I can pay you back
            as soon as it comes.
        Love, Ewan.

Take it away, Eric the Orchestra Leader!


| `stanza title 1` 
| A one, two, a one two three four
|
| `stanza title 2`
| Half a bee, philosophically,
|     must, *ipso facto*, half not be.
| But half the bee has got to be,
|     *vis a vis* its entity.  D'you see?
|
| stanza title 3 :title:`x` 
| But can a bee be said to be
|     or not to be an entire bee,
|         when half the bee is not a bee,
|             due to some ancient injury?
|
| Singing...