Possible Clues:

• 26 down, by the sound of it, and a little more is enough for a little bit of poetry
• Is on one's feet, by the sound of it, with a bit of poetry (6)
• By the sound of it, there is up a bit of poetry
• Stanley's reportedly taken a few lines
• Verse in which African state seizes half of another
• A few lines, articles about New Zealand under way
• The sound stands a bit inversely, perhaps
• Each animal has one in 'Old MacDonald Had a Farm'
• Component of poem
• Such is poetic, the end for many countries with extremists