This is my standard poetry styling:
Code:
div.poetry {
margin: 1em 0 1em 2em;
}
div.stanza {
margin: 0.5em 0;
}
div.poetry div.line {
margin: 0;
padding-left: 5em;
text-indent: -5em;
text-align: left;
}
div.poetry div.indented {
margin-left: 2em;
}
Code:
<div class="poetry">
<div class="stanza">
<div class="line">‘“You are old, Father William,” the young man said,</div>
<div class="line indented">“And your hair has become very white;</div>
<div class="line">And yet you incessantly stand on your head—</div>
<div class="line indented">Do you think, at your age, it is right?”</div>
</div>
<div class="stanza">
...
</div>
</div>