Editing Alliterative verse (section)

===Comparison to other alliterative traditions===
Germanic alliterative verse is not the only alliterative verse tradition. It is thus worthwhile briefly to compare Germanic alliterative verse with other alliterative verse traditions, such as Somali and Mongol poetry. Like German alliterative verse, Somali alliterative verse is built around short lines (phrasal units, roughly equal in size to the Germanic half-line) whose strongest stress must alliterate with the strongest stress in another phrase. However, in traditional Somali alliterative verse, alliterating consonants are always word-initial, and the same alliterating consonant must carry through across multiple successive lines within a poem.<ref name="Alliteration in Somali Poetry"/> In Mongol alliterative verse, individual lines are also phrases, with strongest stress on the first word of the phrase.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.21435/sff.25 |title=Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song |date=2022 |volume=14 |publisher=Finnish Literature Society |isbn=978-951-858-587-2 |editor-last1=Sykäri |editor-last2=Fabb |editor-first1=Venla |editor-first2=Nigel |jstor=j.ctv371cp40 }}{{page needed|date=December 2023}}</ref> Lines are grouped into pairs, often parallel in structure, which must alliterate with one another, though alliteration between the head-stress and later words in the line is also allowed, and non-identical alliteration (for example, of voiced and voiceless consonants) is also accepted.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Foley |first1=John Miles |last2=Gejin |first2=Chao |title=Challenges in Comparative Oral Epic |journal=Oral Tradition |date=2012 |volume=27 |issue=2 |doi=10.1353/ort.2012.0018 |s2cid=55908556 |doi-access=free |hdl=10355/65268 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> Like Germanic alliterative verse, Somali and Mongol verse both emerge from oral traditions.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=de Ridder |first1=Rob |last2=Finnegan |first2=Ruth |title=Oral Poetry: Its Nature, Significance and Social Context |journal=Man |date=December 1994 |volume=29 |issue=4 |pages=995 |doi=10.2307/3033992 |jstor=3033992 }}</ref> Mongol poetry, but not Somali poetry, resembles Germanic verse in its emphasis on heroic epic.<ref>{{cite book |doi=10.4324/9781003258001-16 |chapter=Mongolian oral epic poetry |title=Oral Epic Traditions in China and Beyond |date=2021 |last1=Gejin |first1=Chao |pages=121–129 |isbn=978-1-00-325800-1 |s2cid=244653496 }}</ref>