Trigger-happy with trojan signposts?

[MLuckman]

I have instances of speech in my poems that include several lines in their entirety. I could mark them as "speech" and avoid trojan signpost usage, however, that sees to violate the structure of the poem, because the poem structurally isn't mixed like below, structurally, it's all lines inside the poem. Is it better to do speech signposts and keep the structure clear, or to avoid trojan signposts and wrap several lines in a single speech tag?

<line></line>
<line></line>
<speech><line></line>
<line></line>
</speech>
<line></line>

[djbpitt]

@MLuckman Overlapping hierarchies require doing some sort of violence to the structure, so although we get to choose our transgression, we wind up transgressing. You are correct that wrapping <speech> tags around lines misrepresents the hierarchy. Trojan milestones also misrepresent the hierarchy by using empty elements to fake the start and end tags of “container” elements. When I run into this situation, my highest priority is to be consistent, so if you need to use Trojan milestones for some speeches (e.g., those that begin in the middle of one line and end in the middle of another), I would recommend using them for all, including the ones that contain only entire lines.