: How to denote verses of a poem in running text? I need to fit a certain amount of text onto one double page of a print document. The text has several poems in it which of course have verses.

@Speyer780

Yes, the slash is used between running lines of poetry or song lyrics. You can capitalize according to grammar or at the beginning of each line, as you prefer:

Song lyrics:


There comes a time/when you heed a certain call/and the world must come together as one/There are people dying,/oh and it's time to lend a hand to life — /the greatest gift of all

We are the world/We are the children/We are the ones who make a brighter day, so let's start giving/There's a choice we're makin',/We're savin' our own lives/It's true we make a brighter day, just you and me


Poetry:


How can my muse want subject to invent/While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse/Thine own sweet argument, too excellent/For every vulgar paper to rehearse?/O, give thyself the thanks if aught in me/Worthy perusal stand against thy sight,/For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,/When thou thyself dost give invention light?/Be thou the tenth Muse, ten times more in worth/Than those old nine which rhymers invocate,/And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth/Eternal numbers to outlive long date./If my slight muse do please these curious days,/The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise.

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