To quote a poem, you should place the quoted text within quotation marks. You should cite the author’s surname and year of publication in brackets. If available, include a page number for the quoted passage. Otherwise, a single line of poetry will look like any other quote.
If you are quoting four or more lines, begin the quotation on a new line indented one inch from the left margin and reproduce each line of the poem as it appears in your source, double spacing each line and indenting it one inch. Beginning and ending quotation marks as well as slashes to indicate line breaks are not needed.
When you quote a single line of a poem (or part of a line), simply put it in quotation marks as you would for any other quote. For quotations of multiple lines, there are some specific formatting requirements. If you quote two or three lines, use a forward slash to mark the line breaks. Put a space before and after the slash.
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