Answer coming after Laurel's reported lines (6)
I believe the answer is:
stanza
'lines' is the definition.
(group of lines in a poem)
'answer coming after laurel's reported' is the wordplay.
'answer' becomes 'a' (abbreviation eg in Q and A).
'coming after' says to put letters next to each other.
'laurel' becomes 'stan' (I've seen this before).
'reported' becomes 'z' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'stan'+'z'='stanz'
'a' after 'stanz' is 'STANZA'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stanza that I've seen before include "piece by poet" , "Lines often repeated" , "Poetic verse" , "Lines forming a unit of verse" , "Fixed number of lines of verse" .)