Version 1 I want to be able to make stanza breaks between lines of poetry. Right now if I leave two blank lines, one gets sucked up.

Like this.

Now I'm typing this Like a poem So that where you see a capital It is at the margin. I'm typing this with a stanza break here.

Right now the only way I can Start every new line at the margin Is by putting two spaces before each line

But then the font changes. Here's what the above looked like when I first typed it, minus the indent and the font change.

  Version 2

  I want to be able to make stanza breaks 
  between lines of poetry.  
  Right now if I leave
  two blank lines, one gets sucked up.

  Like this.

  Now I'm typing this
  Like a poem
  So that where you see a capital
  It is at the margin.  I'm typing this with a stanza break here.

  Right now the only way I can
  Start every new line at the margin
  Is by putting two spaces before each line

  But then the font changes.
  Here's what the above looked like when I first typed it, minus the indent and the font change.