The model here isn't Old English alliterative verse, but later fourteenth-century alliterative verse. If any real poetry sickos want to know.

The poet they probably shouldn’t have sent. I watch anime and am sometimes accused of reading books. I'm writing a long gay giant robot story in verse—probably this millennium's best yuri mecha epic poem, through lack of competition.
'Now praise those names on tombs of steel engraved | And toll this rotting country’s countless bells.'
The model here isn't Old English alliterative verse, but later fourteenth-century alliterative verse. If any real poetry sickos want to know.
It's not going to be all that good but no one else was stepping up to do it.
Look I write 2 line head rhyme poems every day and half the time they're about my cat. Poetry is always better than no poetry.