Help:Poem

The poem extension allows for easy inclusion of poems and similar material on articles, by simply putting them between &lt;poem> tags, instead of adding &lt;br&gt; to the end or : to the beginning of every line.

The extension preserves wikilinks, bolding, etc. if they are present in the poem, as well as indenting lines which start with spaces.

Styling a poem
The poem text is wrapped in a div, which has no style by default, but inherits any style or class option passed to the poem.

For example:

When applied to the above example, the result is as follows:

 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.

So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

"Compact" option
Normally, the parser renders each poem in a paragraph. Occasionally this is not desired; using the compact option suppresses newlines in the poem, to allow adjacent compact poems to blend together.