spacing of poetry gets left-justified. NO!

  • I’d like to use a poem from the following link (https://www.outwalking.net/2006/11/last_days_a_poe.html) in a post. But when I’ve cut and paste, and then saved the draft, all the text gets left justified–despite trying several times to recreate the spacing effects. What must I do to keep that spacing (indenting) scheme?

    the poem is supposed to look like this:

    A Poem For Autumn, I Think
    Last Days

    Things are
    changing; things are starting to
    spin, snap, fly off into
    the blue sleeve of the long
    afternoon. Oh and ooh
    come whistling out of the perished mouth
    of the grass, as things
    turn soft, boil back
    into substance and hue. As everything,
    forgetting its own enchantment, whispers:
    I too love oblivion why not it is full
    of second chances. Now,
    hiss the bright curls of the leaves. Now!
    booms the muscle of the wind.

    (Mary Oliver, in New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1)

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  • Thread Starter plafferty

    (@plafferty)

    nuts…even saving this forum question creates the same problem! Please go to the link to see what kind of indentation I’m looking to preserve.

    By default all text is left justified. You can’t copy and paste text exactly as it is into your posts. It will always re-justify itself.

    You’ll need to re-space things in the content editor before saving the post.

    Thread Starter plafferty

    (@plafferty)

    thanks for replying so quickly, Mr Herman!

    But I’ve tried to space things manually. I did have success with indenting the first line manually…but no other attempts worked

    DO I need to set the editor in a certain kind of heading (parapragh, heading 1, etc?) Do I need to go in through the text (rather than visual) editor? If so, what code do I need to bracket the pertinent text with so that I can create those indentations?

    thanks in advance!

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