Possible Clues:

• Piece of soap
• Lives captured in lyric poem, it might occur to you
• Incident or event as part of sequence
• One part of a serial
• Serial number?
• Wept heartily - is poem one of a series?
• One of a related series of events
• Incident in a story or part of a serial
• First record does confuse the story
• One part of a series