PPP: Adding poems

Adding a poem is something anyone can do to improve PPP, and it's easy. Below are what you'll need and the steps to follow.

Heading
Click "Add a New Page" and write your page heading in the box that appears. The format should be Title / Author (first the poem's title, a space, a slash, and the author's name), so for our sample the page would be called A Poem / A. Poet.

Once you're there, go immediatedly to "Source" mode (by checking the Source tab on the upper right of the editing page). For proper formatting, one should always write a poem in ''Source".

Template
The first thing to add is a template. Use the following template; you can simply copy and paste this one (make sure you have both sets of curly brackets):

Title and author are self-explanatory. "Section" applies only if you are adding a long poem by canto (or chapter); "previous and "next" only if you are adding a connet series or other series (such as a book); otherwise leave those blank. "Year" should be the year the poem was written; if it was published later, you can add that year in "notes". "Notes" is for any other information you'd like to add about the poem (usually information about the book in which it was first published, or, barring that, the book where you got it from). When you're done, your template will look like this:

Which will look like this on the page:

Adding the poem
Now it's time to add the poem itself.

1) Start a new section for your poem by typing in the poem's title. (Use a Title 3 heading, by adding 3 equal signs before and after your heading).

2) Leave a blank line or two, and type the word . Then leave at least one blank line before adding the poem text.

3) Type or copy in the text of your poem. At the bottom, you can add the poet's name, date and book information, but (as you've already given all that in the template) none of that is necessary.

4) At the end, leave one more blank line and type in.

And you're done: your poem should look like this (if it doesn't, compare your codes to the ones used here):

A Poem
This is a poem. It is not a great poem Or even a good poem. All that it is Is just a poem.

A. Poet From A Book of Poetry, ''2001.