Library of Formatting Examples:Poetry/00A
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[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> */ |
General instructions
To format poetry:
- Find lines that were split because the paper was not wide enough, and rejoin them. This is unlike most of our proofreading and formatting, where we preserve the original line breaks.
- Reproduce any indentation, always using an even number of spaces. However....
- Ignore a stanza's leading quotation mark when indenting its other lines. (Don't indent them by an extra space.)
- Enclose all of the verses of one poem in one set of no-wraps, to preserve the line breaks and your indentation. However....
- The titles of poems go outside any no-wrap, and so do section numbers, if there are any.
- If there is an attribution, (as in the example above), some post-processors (strongly) prefer it to be in the same no-wrap as the poem, while others (strongly) prefer it to be in a separate no-wrap. So, if this preference is not to be found in the project comments or discussion ... ask (but by now, you already know that).
- Depending on the project comments, treat each new poem as a chapter (four/two spacing) or a section (two/one spacing). Of course, if the poem is just between paragraphs of prose, the no-wrap tags and their blank lines will provide the necessary separation.
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