Text from Word that IDCS4 can't capture (Setting poetry...)

I am designing some books on poetry and the autho indented to the right some words.
Many lines are normal (from the left edge) but others are aligned to the right side.
This text arrives from Word with the indents but no style is present at all.
The «normal» lines show 0 values in the fields (0 left indent, o first line indent, etc)
The special lines always are showing a first line indent between 50-70 mm (they change in each poem)
If I apply an style all the formatting get lost.
And I can not look the indented lines by find/change because ALL the values are changing.
But these special lines are tagged in some way. They are the only ones who are indented.
I would like to characterize these ones.
It is possible?

Jong:
Yes, I was here in the past but the server refused yesterday my login...
Instead of fighting against it after an hour I adopted the same identity but with a new log.
Of course, I lost my little red square that was like the red button in the Legion d' Honneur
Yes. My post yesterday was a little difussed. I wanted to tag the indented lines but this may be as disastrous as having dozens of styles. Naïvely I was thinking how to translate the indents to tabs, but tab are also a paragraph element. At the end the disturbance is that text coming from can not get rightly styled in ID (appears as a «normal» style) and that is a problem to make adjustments lately.
Scripting is a superb mode but in this book I only have 40-50 lines with problems... Perhaps the hand made system is better. Anyway the conversion from Word sometimes does not match in Indesign (fonts, size, etc) and the only to preserve this special lines is changing their position (author must be consulted) or reduce the type size until all get fixed. In this case it is infamous to set all the book in a lesser type size just for the exceptions.
Thank you.

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