How to adjust the amount of space between two lines at each br in CSS

Question

I have a document like this:

This is some text.<br>
This is some more text.<br>
This is yet some more text.

This renders like this:

This is some text.
This is some more text.
This is yet some more text.

Is it possible to change the line spacing, but only where the br>s appear? The result could resemble this:

This is some text.

This is some more text.

This is yet some more text.

Long lines wrapping on the page would not show with double-space, therefore this is not the same thing.
How can I change the distance between lines where br> is present?