Block Quotes and Poetry
Poems!
For poetry, we suggest you do three things:
a) wrap the whole poem in a blockquote
b) wrap each stanza in <p class="no-indent">
c) and then each line in the stanza is just a soft return
Note that <p class="no-indent"> does TWO things:
- removes the indent on the paragraph
- adds a space above the paragraph to separate it from the previous text
So your poem would look like this in the TEXT editor:
<blockquote>
<p class="no-indent">A stranger has come
To share my room in the house not right in the head,
A girl mad as birds</p><p class="no-indent">Bolting the night of the door with her arm her plume.
Strait in the mazed bed
She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering clouds</p><p class="no-indent">Yet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room,
At large as the dead,
Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards.</p><p class="no-indent nowrap">. . . . . . . .</p><p class="no-indent">And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.</p>
<cite>-Dylan Thomas</cite>
</blockquote>Which will render something like this on export:
A stranger has come
To share my room in the house not right in the head,
A girl mad as birdsBolting the night of the door with her arm her plume.
Strait in the mazed bed
She deludes the heaven-proof house with entering cloudsYet she deludes with walking the nightmarish room,
At large as the dead,
Or rides the imagined oceans of the male wards.. . . . . . . .
And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars.-Dylan Thomas
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