Lineate

Lineate provides two simple shortcodes for easily formatting poetry in the WordPress editor.

The first is the stanza shortcode. To indicate a stanza, wrap the appropriate text the [stanza]…[/stanza] shortcode as follows:

[stanza]
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
[/stanza]

The amount of vertical distance between stanzas can be set on the Lineate settings page.

The second shortcode is for indicating individual lines within a stanza. To ensure that each line in the above example was rendered correctly, you would use the [lineate] shortcode as follows:

[stanza]
[lineate]In Xanadu did Kubla Khan[/lineate]
[lineate]A stately pleasure-dome decree :[/lineate]
[lineate]Where A…