Help:Poetry

Poetry does not come easily to MediaWiki, since consecutive lines are treated as one.

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

becomes:

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

There are several ways to deal with this:

1: Use a blank line between each line
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

2: Use a colon (:) (or 2, or more) at the beginning of each (or every other) line

 * Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
 * Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
 * All mimsy were the borogoves,
 * And the mome raths outgrabe.

3: Make each line a paragraph using
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
 * Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,
 * And the mome raths outgrabe.

====4: End each line with a ''' '''====

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.

5: Use
(deprecated) Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Uneven lines:
If you want uneven lines, use &amp;nbsp; or colon(s) instead of spaces at the start of each line you want indenting:

Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves,
 * And the mome raths outgrabe.

Verses
To make breaks between verses, use as many :&amp;nbsp; as required (note the colon at the beginning).

Formatting
You can, of course, use or any other additional formatting you desire.

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