<<CODE This is a verbatim block.

Tags are not recognized here.

Empty lines do not terminate the paragraph.
Anything could be placed within, even if it has
special meanings otherwhere.

A verbatim block is structured like a "here document":
a user declared string terminates it.

CODE

<<SECOND_VERBATIM_PARAGRAPH

Just another example. Look: verbatim text can start at the beginning of a line! (Of course, the declared termination string should be avoided until the real point of completion:

SECOND_VERBATIM_PARAGRAPH

1 POD Error

The following errors were encountered while parsing the POD:

Around line 2:

Unknown directive: =Verbatim