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Correctly-formatted text

[blank line]
/*
Cold was the night-breeze that sighed round her bower,
It chilled my poor Kathleen, she drooped from that hour:
  And I lost my poor Kathleen, my own little Kathleen,
        My Kathleen O'More.
[blank line]
The Bird of all birds that I love the best,
Is the Robin that in the churchyard builds his nest;
  For he seems to watch Kathleen, hops lightly o'er Kathleen,
        My Kathleen O'More.
[blank line]
<i>James Nugent Reynolds</i>
*/

A simple poem with indentation

This poem demonstrates many of the basic rules for formatting poetry. We put the poem in no-wraps, rejoin any wrapped lines, and use spaces (in multiples of 2) to reproduce the pattern of indentation.

Stanza breaks

Leave a blank line between stanzas, but do not close and reopen the no-wraps. Here, there is a blank line at the top of the example text because it the start of a new stanza (the same way we would leave a blank line when a new paragraph starts at the top of the page).

Attributions

The poem is followed by a right-justified attribution line. If the project comments and discussion thread don't specify whether to put these in the same no-wrap as the poem or in a separate no-wrap, ask.

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