Fitt (poetry)
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Fitt (poetry)
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In Old Saxon poetry, Old English poetry, and Middle English poetry, the term fit(t) was used to denote a section of a long narrative poem, and the term is still used in modern scholarship to refer to these. The term appears in the Latin preface to the Old Saxon Heliand in the form vitteas, and its usage in line 709 of Geoffrey Chaucer's tale of "Sir Thopas" has attracted particular commentary, since here the poem's narrator comments explicitly on arriving at a fitt-division in the poem he is rec
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