[DiapDealer]

Poetry often depends heavily on visual structure where other narrative forms just don't (not as integrally anyway): change the font-size for a straight-forward narrative and the words-per-line just re-adjust to accommodate. Do the same for a poem, and it often visually (and unsatisfactorily) "breaks sh!t." A "Standard" is probably never going to be able to compensate for the fact that all screen- and font-sizes are simply not capable of displaying verse in its optimal visual representation (unless the font is made so tiny as to be virtually unreadable).

The choices are pretty clear: relinquish rigid control over the visual structure of poetry, or accept the fact that structure-dependent poetry is probably not a good candidate for digital conversion -- at least not if the goal is consistency across a range of devices/screen sizes.