Template:RQ:Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

1863 November 23, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “(please specify the poem)”, in Tales of a Wayside Inn, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

Usage edit

This template may be used in Wiktionary entries to format quotations from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's work Tales of a Wayside Inn (1st collected edition, 1863), comprising the first part of "Tales of a Wayside Inn" and the "second flight" of his series of poems called "Birds of Passage". It can be used to create a link to an online version of the work at the Internet Archive.

Longfellow wrote two other parts of "Tales of a Wayside Inn". They are published in:

Parameters edit

The template takes the following parameters:

  • |1=, |chapter=, or |poem=mandatory: the "chapter" or name of the poem quoted from. If the parameter is given the value indicated in the first column of the following table, the template will link to an English Wikipedia article about the poem as shown in the second column:
Parameter value Result
The Children's Hour The Children’s Hour
The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride.
or
Paul Revere's Ride
The Landlord’s Tale. Paul Revere’s Ride.
The Musician's Tale. The Saga of King Olaf
or
The Saga of King Olaf
The Musician’s Tale. The Saga of King Olaf.
For help with linking other Wikipedia articles to the template and/or indicating the date when poems were first written or published, leave a message on the talk page or at "Wiktionary:Grease pit".
  • |part= – if quoting from the poem "The Saga of King Olaf", use this parameter to specify the part number quoted from in uppercase Roman numerals and the name of the part, like this: |part=I. The Challenge of Thor.
  • |stanza= – the stanza number quoted from in Arabic numerals.
  • |2= or |page=, or |pages=mandatory in some cases: the page number(s) to be quoted from. 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=110–111.
    • 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 link to the online version of the work.
  • |3=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage to be quoted from the work.
  • |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.

Examples edit

  • Wikitext:
    • {{RQ:Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn|poem=The Student’s Tale. The Falcon of Ser Federigo.|page=35|passage=Here in seclusion, as a widow may, / The lovely lady whiled the hours away, / Pacing in sable robes the '''statued''' hall, / Herself the stateliest statue among all, {{...}}}}; or
    • {{RQ:Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn|The Student’s Tale. The Falcon of Ser Federigo.|35|Here in seclusion, as a widow may, / The lovely lady whiled the hours away, / Pacing in sable robes the '''statued''' hall, / Herself the stateliest statue among all, {{...}}}}
  • Result: