Poetry block

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The Poetry block is specifically designed for writing poetry, song lyrics, or other literary expressions. Unlike the Paragraph block, the Poetry block preserves all spaces and line breaks exactly as you enter them. This makes it ideal for content where formatting, such as indentation or line breaks, is critical to the meaning or presentation.

Common uses for the Poetry block

• Poems: Maintain the structure of stanzas and verses
• Song Lyrics: Preserve the formatting of choruses and verses
• Literary Excerpts: Keep the original spacing and line breaks intact

In version 7.0, the Verse block was renamed to Poetry block

Add a Poetry block

To add a Poetry block, click on the “Block Inserter” (+)  and select the Poetry block.

You can also type /poetry and hit enter in a new paragraph block to add one quickly.

Detailed instructions on adding blocks

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Block toolbar

Every block comes with unique toolbar icons and block-specific user controls that allow you to manipulate the block right in the editor.

The Poetry block shows nine buttons in the block toolbar:

• Transform to
• Drag icon
• Move arrows
• Change text alignment
• Bold
• Italic
• Hyperlink
• More Rich Text options
• More options

The layout of the Poetry block on your site may vary according to the styles set by the theme you are using.

Transform to

Click on the “Transform” button to convert the Poetry block into a Paragraph, Group, Details, Preformatted or Columns block.

Block-moving tools

To drag and drop the block to a new location on the page template, click and hold the rectangle of dots, then drag to the new location. The blue separator line indicates where the block will be placed. Release the left mouse button when you find the new location to place the block.

Move arrows

Use the block-moving tools to move the Poetry block.

The drag or six dots icon allows you to freely reposition the block anywhere within the editor by holding the icon and dragging it to the new location.

You can also use the arrow icons to move the block up or down within the group of nested blocks or when there are multiple blocks.

Get more information about moving a block within the editor.

Change text alignment

• Align text left – Make the block left-aligned.
• Align text center – Make the block alignment centered.
• Align text right – Make the block right aligned.

Bold and Italics

You can select the text of the block and use the “Bold” option or “Ctrl+B” / “Cmd+B” on your keyboard to bold it, which is usually heavier than the surrounding text.

You can select the text of the block and use the “Italic” option or “Ctrl+I” / “Cmd+I” on your keyboard to italicize it, which usually appears slanted to the right.

Link

Use the link option to add a link to the Poetry block. It’s also possible to set it to open the link in a new tab.

Read about more link editing options.

More rich text options

The drop-down menu to the left of the More options menu contains a range of additional rich text editing options such as highlighting, inline code, strikethrough, and more.

Read about more rich text editing options.

More options

The Options menu represented by three vertical dots on the far right of the toolbar gives you more features such as the ability to duplicate or remove the block.

Read about these and other settings.

Block settings

Every block has specific options in the editor sidebar in addition to the options found in the block toolbar. 

Color

The Poetry block provides Color settings options to change the text and background colors.

See this guide for more information about changing colors

Background image

Choose the Add background image button to select an image to appear behind the text of the Poetry block.

Typography

The Poetry block provides typography settings to change the font family, size, appearance, line height, letter case, letter spacing, and decoration.

Get more details about changing typography settings

Dimensions

The Poetry block provides dimension settings options to change padding and margin size.

Learn more about dimension controls

Border

The Poetryblock provides border settings options to add border color, width, and radius.

Learn more about border settings

Advanced

The Poetry block provides the following Advanced settings options: HTML Anchor, Additional CSS Class(es), Additional CSS, and Styles.

Learn more about advanced settings