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Long Poems in Alliterative Verse

Whether the poem in question is a modernist eclogue, like Auden's Age of Anxietry, or a traditional epic, like Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur, alliterative verse works well as a vehicle for long form poetry.
For longer alliterative poems that have been published online or in larger collections, check out the Epic Poems sampler.
Freydis and Gudrid Leiser Libretto Opera
Contains a long poem by the same name in alliterating stanzas.
Drápa: A Murder Mystery (A novel in verse in English and Icelandic; the Icelandic is in the drapa form) Gerður Kristný [Review here]
Hessen (a short SF epic) Garrett Carroll
The Saving of the City Timothy Witchazel

Long Poems with Major Sections in Alliterative Verse

Loosely Alliterative Long Poems Inspired by Alliterative Verse

(blank verse; loosely alliterative)
A translation of the classic Persian epkic into a loose imitation of alliterative verse
(four-stress accentual with ryming couples, loosely alliterative)
It may not look like it, but this doctoral dissertation contains an epic poem inspired by skaldic meters, "Skulváði Úlfr"
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