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Alliterative Metrics

If you want to go on a deep dive into the theory of alliterative verse, these scholarly books are a good place to start.(though also read C.S. Lewis' scholarly article, "The Alliterative Metre".
English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History
Old English Metre: An Introduction
A History of Old English Meter
An Introduction to Middle English
Beowulf and Old Germanic Metre
The Metre and Meody of Beowulf
Studies in the Metre of Alliterative Verse Putter et al.
On Middle English meter
Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650
Approaches to the Metres of Alliterative Verse Jefferson and Putter
More on Middle English meter
The Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry
Reconstructing Alliterative Verse
The Alliterative Revival
The English Alliterative Tradition
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