Library of Formatting Examples:Metrical Drama/07C

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<sc>Scene IV</sc>[*** Scene = section: two blank lines.]

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<i>Chorus.</i> Fear not the power of flame, nor swelling gale,
Nor hurtling dart, nor cloudy wain that brings
The winter storms; fear not when Danube sweeps      585
Unchecked between its widely severed shores,
Nor when the Rhone hastes seaward, and the sun
Has broken up the snow upon the hills,
        And Hermes flows in rivers.[*** Indentation, not overflow.]
A wife deserted, loving while she hates,      590
Fear greatly; blindly burns her anger's flame,
*/[*** added to truncated example for balance.]

Overflow versus indentation

This is a continuation of the previous example. Unwrap text that overflows due to paper width, which is distinguished here by lowercase letters at the beginning of the line, versus the uppercase on all of the others. There is one line that is clearly an indentation rather than an overflow, following the aforementioned pattern. Just like with poetry, indent by an even number of spaces.

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