Verses
When you need to preserve indents and line breaks, use a verse block.
Verses are defined by setting verse on a paragraph or an excerpt block delimited by four underscores (____).
verse style syntax
When verse content doesn’t contain any empty lines, you can assign the verse style using the first position in an attribute list.
Example 1. Verse style syntax
[verse,Carl Sandburg, two lines from the poem Fog]
The fog comes
on little cat feet.The result of Example 1 is displayed below.
The fog comes on little cat feet.
— Carl Sandburg
two lines from the poem Fog
two lines from the poem Fog
Delimited verse block syntax
When the verse content includes empty lines, enclose it in a delimited excerpt block.
Example 2. Verse delimited block syntax
[verse,Carl Sandburg,Fog]
____
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
____The delimited verse block from Example 2 is rendered below.
The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.
— Carl Sandburg
Fog
Fog