The Poem extension allows easy formatting of poems and similar material within Wikitext. Once the extension is enabled, you can put any block of text within <poem></poem> tags, which has the following effects: All newlines are preserved by converting them into <br /> tags The block of text is enclosed in <p>...</p> tags (as well as a div of class "poem") Colons at the beginning of a line are
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