Getting poems to display correctly in the blog preview for site visitors

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  katebalstrov · Member · Jan 16, 2017 at 7:32 am

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  Hi all,
  I’m trying to set up a blog to share my poetry.

  I wrote a poem in a post with no problems, but it doesn’t maintain the line breaks for the shortened ‘preview’ form (is there a proper name for this?). This is a problem, because I can’t share it on facebook. A paragraph does not have the same effect as properly set out prose. Help!

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  fstat · Staff · Jan 16, 2017 at 4:59 pm

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  Hi there,

  Here’s how to properly format your poem using HTML:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/

  If this doesn’t work or you have more questions, just let me know and I’ll be happy to help!

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  katebalstrov · Member · Jan 19, 2017 at 3:52 am

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  Thanks for the tips.

  Unfortunately it didn’t help. The poem displays correctly on WordPress, but to share the blog on Facebook, it still comes up as a paragraph of text. Grrr

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  fstat · Staff · Jan 19, 2017 at 7:28 am

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  You’re welcome!

  As far as I know you can’t control the format on a Facebook post. Have you tried publishing your poem as a Facebook note? Notes have some formatting options.