Possible Clues:

• South Africans half rejected piece by poet
• Gets to stand a bit like 25 down, by the sound of it
• Southern African state's lost national independence anthem's first verse
• Sounds on its feet with a bit averse to it
• Group of lyrical lines
• Lines of bronze inlaid in small unknown area
• Prose:paragraph::poetry:___
• One of four in 'The Star-Spangled Banner'
• Lines forming a unit of verse
• Mr Laurel's read out a piece of poetry