Template:RQ:Clare Rural Life

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This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from John Clare's work Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1st edition, 1820). It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work (contents) at the Internet Archive.

The template takes the following parameters:

• |2=, |chapter=, |entry=, or |poem= – mandatory:
  • If quoting from the introduction specify |chapter=Introduction, and use |entry= if quoting from one of the entries in the glossary.
  • If quoting from the main part of the work, specify the name of the poem quoted from. If quoting from a chapter or poem indicated in the second column of the following table, give the parameter the value indicated in the first column:

• |stanza= – if the poem is divided into stanzas, the stanza number in Arabic numerals.
• |2= or |page=, or |pages= – mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) quoted from in Arabic or lowercase Roman numerals, as the case may be. When quoting a range of pages, note the following:
  • Separate the first and last pages of the range with an en dash, like this: |pages=10–11 or |pages=x–xi.
  • You must also use |pageref= to specify the page number that the template should link to (usually the page on which the Wiktionary entry appears).

You must specify this information to have the template determine the part of the work quoted from, and to link to the online version of the work.

• |3=, |text= or |passage= – the passage to be quoted.
• |footer= – a comment on the passage quoted.
• |brackets= – use |brackets=on to surround a quotation with brackets. This indicates that the quotation either contains a mere mention of a term (for example, "some people find the word manoeuvre hard to spell") rather than an actual use of it (for example, "we need to manoeuvre carefully to avoid causing upset"), or does not provide an actual instance of a term but provides information about related terms.

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Clare Rural Life|poem=Summer Evening|page=130|passage=Swallows check their '''winding''' flight, / And twittering on the chimney light.}}; or
  • {{RQ:Clare Rural Life|Summer Evening|130|Swallows check their '''winding''' flight, / And twittering on the chimney light.}}
• Result:
  • 1820, John Clare, “ Summer Evening.”, in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery, London: for Taylor and Hessey, ; and E Drury, , →OCLC, page 130:

    Swallows check their winding flight, / And twittering on the chimney light.