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{{Poetically break lines}} is a template designed to format poetry simply and reliably. It differs from {} in two significant ways: it does not add spacing around the poem that sets it apart as “block quote”, and it automatically provides hanging indentation when lines are so long that they wrap. This is an advantage in a few specific ...
Couplet. In poetry, a couplet is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (closed) couplet, each of the two lines is end-stopped, implying that there is a grammatical pause at the end of a line of verse. In a run-on (open) couplet, the meaning of the first line ...
John Roe, in Jane Doe, "My Dinner with Alien Invaders" Template documentation [view] [history] [purge] A template for quoting poems, song lyrics, and other things that have frequent line breaks and other things that would generally be ignored in standard wiki formatting. Based on {{ Blockquote }}; see there for further usage details. Example Markup Renders as {{ Poem quote | text = <!-- or: 1 ...
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This is a list of English poems over 1000 lines. This list includes poems that are generally identified as part of the long poem genre, being considerable in length, and with that length enhancing the poems' meaning or thematic weight.
Acrostic. An acrostic is a poem or other word composition in which the first letter (or syllable, or word) of each new line (or paragraph, or other recurring feature in the text) spells out a word, message or the alphabet. [1] The term comes from the French acrostiche from post-classical Latin acrostichis, from Koine Greek ἀκροστιχίς ...
If the template has a separate documentation page (usually called "Template:template name/doc"), add [[Category:Poetry templates]] to the <includeonly> section at the bottom of that page. Otherwise, add <noinclude>[[Category:Poetry templates]]</noinclude> to the end of the template code, making sure it starts on the same line as the code's last ...
Rhyme scheme. A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other. An example of the ABAB rhyming scheme, from "To Anthea, who may Command him Anything", by Robert Herrick :