Editing Alliterative verse (section)

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The need to find an appropriate alliterating word gave certain other distinctive features to alliterative verse as well. Alliterative poets drew on a specialized vocabulary of poetic synonyms rarely used in prose texts<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cronan |first1=Dennis |title=Poetic words, conservatism and the dating of Old English poetry |journal=Anglo-Saxon England |date=December 2004 |volume=33 |pages=23–50 |doi=10.1017/s026367510400002x |s2cid=162468385 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="auto2"/> and used standard images and [[metaphor]]s called ''[[kenning]]s''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scholtz |first1=Hendrik van der Merwe |title=The Kenning in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Poetry |date=1927 |publisher=N. V. Dekker & Van de Vegt en J. W. Van Leeuwen |hdl=2027/mdp.39015033650196 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Kennings in Old English Verse and i">{{cite journal |last1=Fulk |first1=Robert D. |title=Kennings in Old English Verse and in the Poetic Edda |journal=European Journal of Scandinavian Studies |date=26 April 2021 |volume=51 |issue=1 |pages=69–91 |doi=10.1515/ejss-2020-2030 |s2cid=233186171 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |doi=10.1163/ej.9789004179257.i-500.43 |chapter=The Old Norse Kenning as a Mnemonic Figure |title=The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages |date=2010 |last1=Birgisson |first1=Bergsveinn |pages=199–213 |isbn=978-90-474-4160-1 }}</ref>

Old Saxon and medieval English attest to the word ''[[fitt (poetry)|fitt]]'' with the sense of 'a section in a longer poem', and this term is sometimes used today by scholars to refer to sections of alliterative poems.<ref>'[https://www.oed.com/view/Entry/70743 fit | fytte, n.1.]', ''Oxford English Dictionary Online'', 1st edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1896).</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Fulk |first1=R.D. |title=The origin of the numbered sections in Beowulf and in other Old English poems |journal=Anglo-Saxon England |date=December 2006 |volume=35 |pages=91–109 |id={{ProQuest|196661862}} |doi=10.1017/S0263675106000056 |jstor=44510947 |s2cid=163092737 }}</ref>