Wikipedia talk:List of infoboxes/Proposed/Infobox Poetry
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I made this infobox for poems. I fear that there may be too many options, and the "Poem" may be better than "Poetry", or what to do with all of Shakespeare's sonnets, but this is what this talk page is for. GracenotesT § 00:28, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Sample infobox for this page:
| Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs) | |
 Really the text of Beowulf, but who will notice? |
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| Loves die, and we know thee immortal, Our Lady of Pain. — Lines 55 and 56
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| Author | Algernon Swinburne |
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| Language | English |
| Number of lines | 440 |
| Released | 1866 |
| Part of | Poems and Ballads |
| Meter | U-UU-UU-U (notation may vary) |
| Rhyme scheme | abab cdcd |
| Themes in the poem | sacred feminine, sadomasochism |
| This is a footnote | |
[edit] Comments
I quite like the parameters. All include information that better summarizes the form of the poem for poetry articles. I'm not too keen on the color though but overall I think it wouldn't hurt to add to any poetry article.¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 19:47, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
I am very much in support of this infobox. Just like books and film, I have always thought poems needed infoboxes too. Poem articles just look so empty without an infobox, and I feel it an injustice that this doesn't exist already. While I am mainly a supporter of the idea of any kind of poetry infobox, I find this one especially well done. The parameter for a specific quote is particularly interesting. VolatileChemical 01:31, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
