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Formatting Your Poem
Poetry can take any form from words pasted on a soda bottle to lines scribbled on a diner placemat, but here are some standard formatting suggestions:

• Indent when a line of poetry is long and goes on to the next line on the page
• Add a space between stanzas
• Be sure that your computer did not automatically capitalize words that you did not mean to capitalize
• Put your name in italics at the bottom, right, with a long dash in front of your name.

Example

Title

poem poem poem
poem poem
poem poem poem

poem poem poem
poem poem poem
poem poem poem

—Your Name

• Or, Center your poem.
Example

Title

poem poem poem
poem poem
poem poem poem

poem poem poem
poem poem poem
poem poem poem

—Your Name


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