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HTML

<div id="text">Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. rewra awr wear wear eawr wearweareawrwa<br>
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    tretreatreat trae un uio ioj oij ioj io jio jio joi joij rwa rea rewa rewar rewarwearewarwa</div>

CSS

#text {
    border: 1px solid black;
    width: 250px;

}

#text span{
    display:block;
        line-height:25px;
    padding-right:50px;
    background-image:url('http://www.revpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/white-square-25x25.jpg'),url('http://www.revpublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/white-square-25x25.jpg'),url('http://frontiernet.net/~bovitz/tkd/images/blue_square.png');
    background-repeat: no-repeat, no-repeat, repeat-y;
    background-position: 100% 0, 100% bottom, 100% 0;
}

JavaScript

/*global jQuery */
/*!	
* Lettering.JS 0.6.1
*
* Copyright 2010, Dave Rupert http://daverupert.com
* Released under the WTFPL license 
* http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
*
* Thanks to Paul Irish - http://paulirish.com - for the feedback.
*
* Date: Mon Sep 20 17:14:00 2010 -0600
*/
(function($){
	function injector(t, splitter, klass, after) {
		var a = t.text().split(splitter), inject = '';
		if (a.length) {
			$(a).each(function(i, item) {
				inject += '<span class="'+klass+(i+1)+'">'+item+'</span>'+after;
			});	
			t.empty().append(inject);
		}
	}
	
	var methods = {
		init : function() {

			return this.each(function() {
				injector($(this), '', 'char', '');
			});

		},

		words : function() {

			return this.each(function() {
				injector($(this), ' ', 'word', ' ');
			});

		},
		
		lines : function() {

			return this.each(function() {
				var r = "eefec303079ad17405c889e092e105b0";
				// Because it's hard to split a <br/> tag consistently across browsers,
				// (*ahem* IE *ahem*), we replaces all <br/> instances with an md5 hash 
				// (of the word "split").  If you're trying to use this plugin on that 
				// md5 hash string, it will fail because you're being ridiculous.
				injector($(this).children("br").replaceWith(r).end(), r, 'line', '');
			});

		}
	};

	$.fn.lettering = function( method ) {
		// Method calling logic
		if ( method && methods[method] ) {
			return methods[ method ].apply( this, [].slice.call( arguments, 1 ));
		} else if ( method === 'letters' || ! method ) {
			return methods.init.apply( this, [].slice.call( arguments, 0 ) ); // always pass an array
		}
		$.error( 'Method ' +  method + ' does not exist on jQuery.lettering' );
		return this;
	};
    $('#text').lettering('lines');
})(jQuery);