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Forgotten Ground Regained

Index

This page lists all poems published on this site, by title, author and form.
Title
Author
Form
A Cry to Heaven (After Psalm 6)
Paul D. Deane
Accentual hexameter with AA/BB/CC alliteration and internal and end-rhyme
A Defence of Moby Dick
Sean Patrick
Alliterative verse
A Hipster Hymn to St. Demetrios
Daniel D. McCollum
Alliterative verse
A Lay of St. Boniface
Patricia Masson
Alliterative verse
A Lost Prayer
John C. Mannone
Lines written mostly in alliterative accentual verse (~4 stresses/line) with a daisy-chain rhyme scheme of ab bc cd de ef gh ia, similar to the Claire sonnet. The final couplet repeats the rhyme of the beginning line (in the spirit of a Duplex sonnet).
A Marriage Poem for Nora and Jamie
George Johnston
Loose alliterative verse
A Psalm for the Swingset
Sarah J. Monnier
Alliterative verse
A Riddle
Adam Bolivar
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
A Riddle
Patricia Masson
Alliterative verse
A Song of the Petrel
Edwin Morgan
Alliterative Verse
A Trinity Riddle
Carter Revard
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Advent Invocation
Jonathan Lovelace
Three lift lines with at least two of the three lifts alliterating
After the Equinox
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
After the Flood
Charles R. Sleeth
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Afterimage
Judith Barrington
Alliterative verse
Aislin's Ride: A Fragment
Paul D. Deane
Alliterative verse (Middle English style with bob and wheel)
All the Air Is Shattered (After Psalm 2)
Paul D. Deane
Accentual tetrameter with AA/BB alliteration and end-rhyme)
Alliterative Aeneid Fragment
Michael Champagne
Alliterative verse
Alliterative Haiku
K.F. Hartless
Alliterataive haiku
Alliterative Iliad Fragment
Michael Champagne
Alliterative verse
Alliterative Meter
Donald T. Williams
Alliterative verse
Alliterative Psalm
Sean Patrick
Alliterative verse
Along the Missouri
Stanley P. Anderson
Alliterative verse
Among the Drumlins
Eric Colburn
Loose alliterative verse
Ancestor Doors
Liz Kendall
Loose alliterative verse
Ancestral Echoes
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
Antimatter
Pedro Poitevin
Alliterative verse (end of the first half-line is a palindrome with the beginning of the second half-line)
April Fools
Stanley P. Anderson
Alliterative verse
Apud Sappho
Geoff Burling
Loose alliterative verse
Archytas (translation)
Kevin Corbett
Alliterative verse
As He Is to Us
Ted Charnley
Alliterative Verse
Ash of the Oathbreaker
Joshua C. Walker
Alliterative Verse (ljoðadaháttr)
At Ethandun
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
At the Place of the Hoary Apple Tree
Brian Wright
Alliterative verse
Aurgelmir
Math Jones
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Automobile Fences
Lancelot Schaubert
Alliterative verse
Awake, Awake, and Work Your Wonders (Isaiah 51:9-16)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
Battle of the Bards
Frank Coffman
Alliterative verse
Beech
Judd Bemmels
Alliterative verse
Beggar King
Stacey Harris
Alliterative verse (imitation of Middle English style with bob and wheel)
Behold, Your God Will Come (Isaiah 35:3-7)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
Beneath a Golden Altar
Cassidy McFadzean
Alliterative verse
Beneath the Buzzing of My Brainstem
Jesse Keith Butler
Loose alliterative verse
Beor’s Lament
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
Beowulf: Grappling with Grendel (translation, lines 702-836)
Keith Moul
Loose alliterative verse
Beowulf: Grappling with Grendel (translation, lines 702-836)
Timothy Murphy and Allan Sullivan
alliterative accentual tetrameter
Beowulf: The Haunted Mere (translation, lines 1308-1382)
Timothy Murphy and Allan Sullivan
alliterative accentual tetrameter
Beowulf: The Haunted Mere (translation, lines 1338b-1379)
Bruce Byfield
alliterative verse
Beowulf: Home to Hygelac (translation, lines 1880-1924)
Timothy Murphy and Allan Sullivan
alliterative accentual tetrameter
Beowulf: Fighting the Firedrake (translation, lines 2510-2586)
Timothy Murphy and Allan Sullivan
alliterative accentual tetrameter
Beowulf Lies Dead Beside the Dragon (translation, lines 2821-2840)
Paul D. Deane
Alliterative verse
Blodmonath
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
Blood for the Mummy
Anthony Etherin
A Shakespearean sonnet in amphibrachic tetrameter, alliterating AA/BB
Boon
George Johnston
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Born of a Wolf
Cassidy McFadzean
Alliterative Verse
Breakwater
Paul D. Deane
Alliterative verse (Thaliarchus tristichs, an experiment described in New Series Issue 1, p. 4.)
Bright waves from the wide Caribbean Sea
Jane Beal
Alliterative free verse
Brotherhood of Men
Richard Eberhart
Alliterative verse
By His Own Arm
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
By the Fire
David B. Ring
Alliterative verse
Caedmon Remembers
Jane Beal
Alliterative verse
Cain's Kin (Grendel Alone)
Brian Wright
Alliterative verse
Call His Name John (Luke 1:5-25)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
Cape Wrath
Chris McCully
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Cardinal at the Feeder in Winter
Matthew Dickerson
Alliterative verse
Catching Loopy
Math Jones
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Catullus, Poem No. 3
Brian Bishop
Alliterative verse
Ceaseless Laborer
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
Changeable Presence
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
Change of Pace
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
Christmas Walk
Thaliarchus
Alliterative verse (Thaliarchus tristichs, an experiment described in New Series Issue 1, p. 4.)
Come Home
Pernille Bruhn
Alliterative free verse
Colors
Joshua C. Frank
Alliterative verse in rhyming couplets
Confession
John C. Mannone
alliterative villanelle; cento based on poems by Dylan Thomas
Continuous Gestation
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
Coral Castles
Tom Emanuel
Alliterative verse
Cormorant upon the Styx
Lancelot Schaubert
Alliterative verse
Creation
Christie L. Ward
Half-lines without structural alliteration
Cthulhu Eldritch Horror Final Form
Michael Helem
Alliterative verse (dróttkvœtt)
Cuthbert's Way
David Jones
Alliterative verse
De Gustibus
Carter Revard
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Dear N
Cintia Santana
Alliterative verse
Dedication for a Shrine of Apollo (translation)
Kevin Corbett
Alliterative verse
Dear Tolkien Society
Lancelot Schaubert
Alliterative verse
Defier of Gravity
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
Deor (translation)
Keth Moul
Loose alliterative verse
Dietrichsvisur
Robert Cuthbert
Alliterative verse (dróttkvœtt)
Do you know the way to Ziq-Zhafej?
Michael Helsem
Alliterative verse (kviðuháttr )
Downstairs, Upstairs (Or the Writer Unblocked)
Ted Charnley
Alliterative verse
Dragon-Fighter
Patricia Masson
Alliterative verse
Earth Mother
Lisa Timpf
Alliterative verse
Elizabeth and Darcy
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
Emblem
Seven Searcy
Alliterative verse (tail-stave meter alliterating in 'b')
Empty
Malcolm Guite
Alliterative verse
Engineer's Prayer
Sean Patrick
Alliterative verse
English Oak
Judd Bemmels
Alliterative verse
Entreating a Sick Kitten
Jeff Sypeck
Alliterative verse
Epitaph to the Sussex King before Æthelwalch
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
Exeter Riddle 47
Bruce Byfield
Alliterative verse
[F]
Cintia Santana
Single Letter Theme
Farewell
Steve Pollington
Loose alliterative verse
Farewell
Thaliarchus
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Fifty Days Further: A Morality Play
Paul D Deane
Alliterative verse (Middle English style)
Flying in Concrete
Lancelot Schaubert
Alliterative verse
Fore(dis)closure
Margaret Stearns
Alliterative free verse
Forgiveness is Arisen from the Garden's Grave (Chrysostom's Paschal Homily)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
Fox
Danny Fitzpatrick
Alliterative verse
Freeway Dawn
Paul D. Deane
Alliterative verse (Middle English style with occasonal assonance and end rhyme)
Fugue For Toy Piano
James Murphy
Alliterative free verse
Garlic - Allium Sativum
Liz Kendall
Three-stress alliterative lines
Gawain
Steve Knepper
Loose alliterative verse with end-rhymes repeated throughout a stanza
Giants' Work
Brian Wright
Alliterative verse
Giver
Steven Searcy
Single-letter alliteration across all 2-lift lines in a long stanza
Opening of the Gylfaginning
Math Jones
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Gleipnir: To Bind the Wolf
Rahul Gupta
Alliterative verse (drotkvœtt)
Grace
Sarah J. Monnier
Alliterative verse
Great-hearted Odysseus
Ruth Aylett
Alliterative free verse
Grim Goes Fishing: from A New Lay of Havelok the Dane
Rahul Gupta
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter, except for one section [the description of the Viking longship] in Old Norse fornyrðislag, with a section near the end that uses Old English-style hypermetric lines)
Grondeswigle (Groundsel)
Brian Mitchell
Alliterative verse
Had It Not Been the Lord (Psalm 124)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
Hail in St. Mary's
Colin Mackenzie
Alliterative verse (kviðuháttr)
Hannah, Prophetess of Hope
Liv Ross
Alliterative verse
Hannah Sings (1 Samuel 1:1—2:11)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
The Opening of the Háttatal (or, the rules for drottkvætt), paraphrased in fornyrðislag
Math Jones
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Healthy Shame
Lancelot Schaubert
Alliterative verse
Hear the Holy One of Israel (Isaiah 30:8-17)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
Hellhound
D.A. Cooper
Alliterative verse (imitation of fornyrðislag)
Hengest Wants War-Companions
Steve Pollington
Loose alliterative verse
Heorot, The Early Days
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
His arms primed
Cassidy McFadzean
Alliterative verse
Hoder's Song
Math Jones
Alliterative verse
Horace: Epode 2 (translation)
John Quinn
Alliterative verse (Mixture of ljoðaháttr and galdralag)
Horrible of Hue
Anonymous (early 16th Century)
Alliterative verse (Middle English style)
House Martins
Colin Mackenzie
Alliterative verse (haðarlag)
Housebreaker
Paul D. Deane
Alliterative verse (tail-stave meter, an experiment described in New Series issue 1, p. 4).
How Manifold Are Thy Works (Psalm 104)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
How Many, How Many (after Psalm 3)
Paul D. Deane
Alliterative verse
Huscarl
Tony Clarke
Loose alliterative verse
Hymn to Earendil (Tolkien fan poetry)
Patricia Masson
Alliterative verse
I Find the Naiad's Place, and Mine
Ted Charnley
Alliterative folk ballad
I Raise My Voice
D.A. Cooper
Alliterative verse
I smile earwide
Cassidy McFadzean
Alliterative verse
Iceland Spar
David B. Ring
Alliterative verse
Icy Yule
Brian Wright
Alliterative verse
Idolaters
Katryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
Iftar
Michael Helsem
Alliterative verse
Immersion
Jesse Keith Butler
Alliterative free verse
Indivisible
L. Erickson
Alliterative verse
In the Beginning
John C. Mannone
Alliterative verse in variable-length stanzas, with rhyming couplets
Ingelrii’s Maþþumsweord
Steve Close
Loose alliterative verse
Interloper
Jeff Sypeck
Alliterative verse
Invocation
Mahendra Singh
Alliterative verse
Iris
Síodhna McGowan
Alliterative free verse
January Eighteenth
Lisa Cooper
Alliterative verse
Jilted Princess Finds Solace in Wine and Cats
Dave Wynne-Jones
Loose alliterative verse
Journey to the West
Oz Hardwick
Loose alliterative verse (impressionistic echo of Norse court meter)
Keening of the Banshee
Frank Coffman
Old Irish seadna
Kenning the Cobble
Matthew Dickerson
Alliterative verse
King Penda’s Apache Attack Helicopters
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
Kinguleruttui /The survivors
Nancy Campbell
Alliterative pantoum
Knot Loosener Memorial Disputation with Gas Giant
Michael Hessel-Mial
Loose alliterative verse
Lady of Cats
Christie l. Ward
Loose alliterative verse
Lament for Vinland's Sailor
Marcus Lindenburg
Alliterative rhyming stanzas (loose imitation of Icelandic rimur)
Land Rites
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
Lay of the Staffordshire Hoard Dragon
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
Leave her and She Swells
Cassidy McFadzean
Alliterative verse (Old Engish style riddle)
Like a Tree Standing Tall (after Psalm 1)
Paul D. Deane
AA/BB alliteration with stanza-final rhyming couplet
Listen, He Whispers
Math Jones
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Loggen Crown
AJ Deane
Alliterative verse
Lords of Battle
Henry Wyvern
Alliterative verse
Love
Ian Holt
Alliterative verse
Low-Born Emperor
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
Lullabyes
Rebecca Henry Lowndes
Alliterative free verse
Maby Forest
Colin Mackenzie
Alliterative verse (hagmælt)
Making Waves: An Experiment in Alliteration
Patricia Masson
Palindromic alliteration with lengthening line
Extract from ‘Malfosse’
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
Marionette
Anthony Etherin
An alliterative Shakespearean sonnet in amphibrachic tetrameter.
Maxim
J.M. Pitt
Alliterative verse
Merry Dancers
Colin Mackenzie
Alliterative verse (dróttkvœtt)
Mister Either/Or (Excerpt)
Aaron Poochigian
Alliterative verse
Mister Either/Or: All the Rage (Excerpt)
Aaron Poochigian
Alliterative Verse
Mikkelsvisur
Robert Cuthbert
Alliterative verse (approximates fornyrðislag)
Mild Soul of Mine [After Camoes]
Ian Holt
Alliterative verse
Mistletoe
Adam Bolivar
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Mitch's Choice
Richard Pierce
Alliterative Verse
Mnemonic For the Futharc
Patricia Masson
Alliterative verse
Modern Dancers
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
Modern Historian’s Riddle
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
Monostich Sequence I
Rose Novick
Two half lines of alliterative verse + an adonic (/ u u / u)
Moonrise, June 19, 1876
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Alternating accentual tetrameter/ accental trimeter lines
Mother's Song (excerpt)
Math Jones
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Mr. Either/Or: All the Rage
Aaron Poochigian
Alliterative verse
My Grandfather's Church Goes Up
Fred Chappell
Alliterative verse
Nature's Hymn
David Jalajel
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Never Again (Isaiah 65:17-25)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
No Longer Treading
Math Jones
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Norway Spruce
Judd Bemmels
Alliterative verse
Not Moving
David B. Ring
Alliterative verse
Not Only Rainbows
John C. Mannone
Loose iambic pentameter with 2-4 alliterating stresses per line
Not Rattling
David B. Ring
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
O Lord I Call (After Psalm 5)
Paul D. Deane
Alliterative verse (split alliterative lines with rhyming couplets at points of emphasis)
O Wonder-Worker (Psalm 77)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
Oathbinder
Corrie Bergeron
Loose alliterative verse (Middle English style with bob and wheel)
October 14th
P.D. Brown
Alliterative verse
Omertà
Michael Helsem
Alliterative verse (malaháttr)
On Odin's Journey
D.A.Cooper
Alliterative verse
On the Maker (Translation of the Wessobrunn prayer)
Jacob Riyeff
Alliterative verse
On Senlac Ridge
Geoff Boxell
Alliterative verse
On the Stair at Yosemite Falls
David B. Ring
Alliterative verse
Over the Sea
Tony Clarke
Alliterative verse
Oversold
David B. Ring
Alliterative verse
Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Sprung rhythm
Place of Slaughter
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
Plebeian
Michael Helsem
Alliterative verse (kviðuháttr)
Poem for the Millenium
Charles Martin
Alliterative verse
Prayer
Michael Simms
Alliterative free verse
Presentation
Dorothy Nielsen
Alliterative verse
Psalm 1
David Rowe
Loose alliterative verse in rhyming ABAB stanzas
Psalm 1
Donald T. Williams
Alliterative verse
Quest for Valhalla
Robert Cuthbert
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Rædwald’s Return
Karen M.P. Carlson
Alliterative verse
Rafflesiastes
Michael Helsem
Alliterative verse
Red Kite
Fiona Richardson
Alliterative verse
Rescue
James Merrill
Impressionistic imitation of Old English alliterative verse
Riddle 1
Bruce Byfield
Alliterative verse
Rock of My Refuge
Shelly Nir
A cross between alliterative verse and Hebrew-style parallelism
Riddle 2
Bruce Byfield
Alliterative verse
Rosemary: for Bill and Pattie Bloom
Andrew Frisardi
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Samhain at the Graveyard
Frank Coffman
Old Irish Rannaigheact Mhor
Scousenlish a-singen
Martin Kennedy Yates
Alliterative verse
Scousenlish a-fallan lufen
Martin Kennedy Yates
Alliterative verse
Scousenlish an Scarren Yaweth
Martin Kennedy Yates
Alliterative verse
Sea Change
John Beaton
Loose alliterative verse
Seraph's Milk
Daid Jalajel
Alliterative verse
Serenity Falls Up
Matthew Bullen
Alliterative free verse
Silence Is Not Safety (After Palm 7)
Paul D. Deane
Primarily AA/BB alliteration
Silver Fir
Judd Bemmels
Alliterative verse
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (partial translation)
Paul D. Deane
Alliterative verse (Middle English style with bob and wheel)
Excerpt from Dramatic Adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (the Girlde Scene)
Simon Corble
Loose alliterative verse
Skaði and Njörðr
Judd Bemmels
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag, but divided into sections containing two full stanzas followed by a half stanza).
Skyline Herds
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
Slaying the Dragon(Tolkien fanfiction)
Susan Edwards
Alliterative verse
Sleepwalking from Malheur
David B. Ring
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Song for a Seeker
Rebecca Henry Lowndes
Alliterative free verse
Song-form
Math Jones
Alliterative Verse (ljoðadaháttr)
Song-Hall of the Bone-Mother
Jordan D. River
Alliterative verse (imitation of fornyrðislag)
Song of the Singer
Adam D. Cooper
Alliterative verse
Spacepoem 3: Off Course
Edwin Morgan
Half-lines without alliteration
Spawn of the Lightning: An Army of Hallowe’en Toadstools
Rahul Gupta
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Spark
Steven Searcy
Loose alliterative verse in 6-line stanzas with 2-lift lines
Sparrow
Fiona Richardson
Alliterative Verse
Spiral Staircase of the Old Hotel
David Jalajel
Alliterative verse
Strange Season
Tony Clarke
Loose alliterative verse
Stripped to the Bonemeal
Lancelot Schaubert
Alliterative verse
Sweet
Margaret Stearns
Alliterative free verse
Sweet and Sour
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
Sweord
L.A. Hood
Alliterative verse
Sword-Maiden's Song
Wendy Lieber Zinger
Alliterative verse
Tabernacle
Steven Searcy
Iambic pentameter stanzas rhyming ABCABC, lines almost always have at least 2, usually 3-4 alliterating stresses.
Talking Trey Down
Aaron Poochigian
1st stanza in alliterative verse, transitioning to highly alliterative iambic pentameter with an ABAB rhyme scheme thereafter.
Tha Spawnen a Scousenlish
Martin Kennedy Yates
Alliterative verse
The Advertisement
Rudyard Kipling
Loose alliterative verse
The Battle of Brunanburh
Michael R. Collings
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
The Battlefield
Adam Bolivar
Alliterative verse
The Beginning of Winter
Rahul Gupta
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
The Birch Canoe
Carter Revard
Alliterative verse
The Birds of Ancient Battlefields Visit the Suburbs
Maryann Corbett
Alliterative verse
The Breath of His Lips (Isaiah 11:1-5)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
The City is Recruited from the Country
Lancelot Schaubert
Alliterative verse
The Brough o Birsay
Colin Mackenzie
Alliterative vers (dróttkvœtt)
The Coming Winter
Justine Blaydon
Alliterative verse
The Commuter
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
The Cuckoo
Adam Bolivar
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
The Death of Bowie Gizzardsbane
John Myers Myers
Alliterative verse
The Domestication
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
The Dream of the Rood (translation)
William G. Carpenter
Loose alliterative verse
The Eightfold Year
Mary Alexander Agner
Alliterative verse
The Exiles Return (Isaiah 49:8-13)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
The Exiles' Song
Oz Hardwick
Aliterative verse (with non-alliterating refrain)
The Fairford Mermaid
Oz Hardwick
Loose alliterative verse
The Fleece
Audrey Hampton
Alliterating iambic tetrameter in rhyming couplets
The Feast of Fat Things
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
The Future
Alex Rettie
Alliterative verse [tail-stave meter]
The Galdrmaðr Weaves an Evil Spell
Frank Coffman
Alliterative verse (galdralag)
The Green Man Awakes
Oz Hardwick
Loose alliterative verse
The Illuminated Manuscript -- Excerpt from The Arthuriad, Part II, Interlude -- The Isle of the Might
Rahul Gupta
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
The Last Leaf that Clings
Matthew Dickerson
Alliterative verse
Excerpt from "The Lawgiver"
Jesse Keith Butler
Loose alliterative verse
The Last Valkyrie
Patricia Masson
Alliterative verse (approximates to dróttkvœtt)
The Lay of Beoric
Joshua M. Gllingham
Alliterative verse (four line stanzas, approxiation of fornyrðislag)
The Lay of the Sea-Wife
Karl Thornley
Alliterative verse
The Leaf
Jeffrey Rensch
Alliterative verse
The Lay of Thrym
George Johnston
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
The Lizard: A Portrait of the Natural World
David Jalajel
Alliterative verse
The Mages of Mars
Steven Withrow
Alliterative verse
The Martyrdom of Stephen
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
The Mayor's Speech from Love Is Enough
William Morris
Loose Alliterative Verse
The Modern Poet’s Word-Hoard
Phyllis Wicks
Alliterative verse
The Origin of Language
Donald T. Williams
Alliterative verse
The Paths of the Dead(Tolkien fan poetry)
Susan Edwards
Loose alliterative verse
The Redemption of Daeron(Tolkien fan poetry)
Paul D. Deane
Daeron stanzas (loose iambic tetrameter alliterating AA/BB, in variable length stanzas ending in rhyming couplets)
The Ruined City (translation)
Eric F. J. Martin
Alliterative verse
The Runes of Weland's Sword
Rudyard Kipling
Impressionistic imitation of fornyrðislag
The Sais and Taliesin
Brian Wright
Alliterative verse
The Scop of Streoneshall
LA Hood
Alliterative verse
The Scribes
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
The Seafarer (translation)
Charles Harrison Wallace
Alliterative verse
The Secret Life

Jane Beal
Alliterative free verse
The Severn
Damon Lord
Alliterative verse
The ship shall be nailed, the shield shall be bound
Cassidy McFadzean
Alliterative verse
The Song of Daniel, Chapter 1
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
The Song of Marwen and Fithurn (Tolkien fan poetry)
Paul D. Deane
4-line stanzas with anapastic tetrameter couplets, alternating with Daeron stanzas (loose iambic tetrameter alliterating AA/BB, in variable length stanzas ending in rhyming couplets)
The Song of Shadows (Tolkien fan poetry)
Paul D. Deane
Daeron stanzas (loose iambic tetrameter alliterating AA/BB, in variable length stanzas ending in rhyming couplets)
The Song of St. Patrick
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
The Song of Woe (Tolkien fan poetry)
Paul D. Deane
Daeron stanzas (loose iambic tetrameter alliterating AA/BB, in variable length stanzas ending in rhyming couplets)
The Swan's Song (translation)
Carter Revard
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
The Tale of Skorri's Song
Marcus Lindenburg
Alliterative rhyming stanzas (loose imitation of Icelandic rimur)
The Talisman
Timothy Murphy
Alliterative accentual tetrameter
The Translator, Working Late
Maryann Corbett
Alliterative verse
The Vineyard Loved by the Lord of Hosts (Isaiah 5:1-7)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
The Wanderer
Timothy Murphy
Accentual dimeter (impressionistic imitation of fornyrðislag)
The War Worth Waging
Leonard Kress
Alliterative verse
The Werewolf
Anthony Etherin
An alliterative Shakespearean sonnet in iambic pentameter. Each line alliterates palindromically (xAxBxCxBxA).
The Westfarer
James S. Dorr
Alliterative verse
The Whitby Elegy
Ian Greenwood
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
The Wood
Martin Vine
Alliterative verse
The Woodchuck
Rachel Trousdale
Alliterative verse
The Worm in the Wood
James S. Dorr
Loosely alliterating accentual tetrameter (four-phrase lines)
The Yule Tree
Patricia Masson
Alliterative verse
Three Miles, August
Rebecca Henry Lowndes
Alliterative free verse
To Varius (translation)
Kevin Corbett
Alliterative verse
Toads’ Porch
David B. Ring
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
Toys
Tony Mitchell
Loose alliterative verse
Tree and Leaf
Malcolm Guite
Alliterative verse
Tree-Hymn
Steven Searcy
Alliterative verse
Tropos: An Etude
Rahul Gupta
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
True Thomas
Oz Hardwick
Alliterative verse
Two Riddles
Ian Greenwood
Alliterative verse
Tynin a Wellie
Colin Mackenzie
Alliterative verse (dróttkvœtt)
Under the Eye
Michel Helsem
Alliterative free verse
Unfathomable
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
Unmoved
Donald Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
"viaticum"
Michael Helsem
Alliterative verse (kviðuháttr)
Volund's Revenge
Rahul Gupta
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Waning
Peter G. Epps
Alliterative verse (inspired by Norse forms)
Warriors
Phyllis Wicks
Alliterative verse
Water Into Wine
Matthew Dickeron
Alliterative verse
Wayland's Revenge
Ian Holt
Alliterative verse
Welcome to Our Website
Paul D. Deane
Alliterative verse (Middle English style with strategically placed rhyming couplets)
What a Perfect Poem
Paul D. Deane
Alliterative verse (imitation of 16th-Century flyting)
What Builds a Bridge
Ted Charnley
Alliterative verse
What Fire Will Be
Connor Wood
Loose alliterative verse
What the Eagle Fan Says
Carter Revard
Alliterative verse (strict Old English meter)
What the Peepers Say
Margaret Noodin
Alliterative free verse
Where Echoes Call and Crash (After Psalm 4)
Paul D. Deane
A mixure of AA/BB and AB/AB alliteration
Whiplashed Sonnet
Richard Vallance
Alliterative sonnet
White
George Johnston
Alliterative free verse
White Owl Irruption
Pam Clements
Alliterative verse
White-tailed Eagle
Fiona Richardson
Alliterative verse
Winter
Tim Miller
Alliterative verse
Winter Window
Chase Ryan Moniz
Alliterative Verse (5-line stanza rhyming ABBC)
Woodland Witch
Anthony Etherin
An sonnet in anapaestic tetrameter, employing an atypical rhyme scheme. It alliterates across the first three beats of each line; moreover, the alliteration is the same in all 14 lines.
Excerpt from Wuffingatæl
Sam Newton
Alliterative verse
Why Alliterative?
Lancelot Schaubert
Alliterative verse
Wyrd
Math Jones
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Yggr
Math Jones
Alliterative verse (fornyrðislag)
Ymir
Tim Miller
Alliterative verse
You Delight in Mercy and Manifest Love (Micah 7)
Kathryn Ann Hill
Alliterative verse
You Have Graced The Heavens (after Psalm 8)
Paul D. Deane
Primarlly AA/BB alliteration
Youth and Age
Donad Mace Williams
Alliterative verse
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