Poetry

How should I use elements for Poems?

[LinuxGold]

I've been trying to figure out a BEST way to set up elements for Poetry i.e.:

<h2>Title of Poem</h2>
<pre>
To be or not to be,
Whatever that is said?
</pre>

or

<h2>Title of Poem</h2>
<p>To be or not to be,<br>
Whatever that is said?</p>

or

<dl>
<dt>Title of Poem</dt>
<dd>To be or not to be,<br>
Whatever that is said?</dd>
</dl>

or.... any experience to share or suggestions?

[daveVk]

Maybe

<h2>Title of Poem</h2>
<ul style="list-style:none" >
<li>To be or not to be,</li>
<li>Whatever that is said?</li>
</ul>

or better still with style done in css.

[piatkow]

This seems to me to be that the PRE tag was designed for.

[vincevincevince]

Whist this may be what the PRE tag is for; it is implemented universally with a mono-spacing. This is usually not what the poet had in mind as most publishers use proportionally spacing. A real shame.

[LinuxGold]

Ok, I will use PRE tag, what about title? h2 or <strong> or whatever that might be?

[Receptional Andy]

An <h1> is most suitable if it's the poem title.

Personally, I use paragraphs for poetry - I don't think it is pre-formatted text. The proposed HTML5 spec mentions this explicitly for paragraphs:

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