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Originally Posted by Jellby
Not in poetry, usually. Widows and orphans can control pagebreaks in a paragraph, but not between paragraphs (or block elements in general). And since poetry is best formatted as separate block elements for each line, widows and orphans have no control there.
What could be done is using "page-break-after:avoid" (or "page-break-before:avoid") in the first or first few (or last or last few) lines of each stanza, depending on the structure of each poem.
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Yes, you are right but I sometimes use <br> within a stanza depending on how complicated the poetry is and how long the lines are. I have not published a book with only poetry just poetry within a another genre. Controlling with page breaks can work and div can be used to group stanzas or portions of stanzas.
Dale