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)[reply]

Sample infobox for this page:

Dolores (Notre-Dame des Sept Douleurs)

Really the text of Beowulf, but who will notice?
Loves die, and we know thee immortal,
Our Lady of Pain.
— Lines 55 and 56
Author Algernon Swinburne
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

Comments[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Audio[edit]

Poems really benefit from being read-aloud, how about a option for audio (from wiki commons)Back ache (talk) 08:22, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]