The second half of the inscription is in alliterative verse of the form fornyrðislag.

It is written in alliterative verse and exists in several versions, but was never finished.

Some of them contain short poems in alliterative verse.

The need to find an appropriate alliterating word gave certain other distinctive features to alliterative verse as well.

The epic is written in old Estonian alliterative verse.

Both, of course, wrote within the Germanic tradition of alliterative verse.

Part of it is written in alliterative verse, or fornyrdislag.

The most popular and well-known understanding of Old English poetry continues to be alliterative verse.

Like most Old English poetry, it is written in alliterative verse.

Just using a basic understanding of the alliterative verse can give us a clue as to what the word might be.