@chrishtr Here's my 20 year old blog post about css and poetry! https://brucelawson.co.uk/2005/what-i-want-from-css-3/
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» What I want from CSS 3, part 1

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Will this work for you for poetry use cases?

https://jsbin.com/yelutom/edit?html,output

This demo works because text-indent only applies to the first line.

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