extra-01-example-memoir.md

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
\settowidth{\versewidth}{Nay, nay, I leave thee not,
                                       thou goest too}
\begin{verse}[\versewidth]
\ldots \\*
His judgement rendered, he dissolved the Thing. \\*
\flagverse{Ingeborg} And your decision? \\*
\flagverse{Fridthjof} \vinphantom{And your decision?}

                                   Have I ought to choose? \\*
Is not mine honour bound by his decree? \\*
And that I will redeem through Angantyr \\*
His paltry gold doth hide in Nastrand’s flood. \\*
Today will I depart. \\*
\flagverse{Ingeborg} \vinphantom{Today will I depart.}

                                 And Ingeborg leave? \\*
\flagverse{Fridthjof} Nay, nay, I leave thee not,

                                   thou goest too. \\*
\flagverse{Ingeborg} Impossible! \\*
\flagverse{Fridthjof} \vinphantom{Impossible!}

                                   O! hear me, ere thou answerest.
\end{verse}
\end{document}