fytte

Definitions

Examples

• So the word fytte has gained a technical appropriation to our narrative poetry when it takes the ballad form.

• So much is told in the first fytte, which corresponds roughly to our ballad.

• One fytte of Lucilla's history is here ended, and another is to be told.

• A portion or division of a poem, a canto, in this sense often spelled “fytte.”

• We can always calculate upon the duration of each ‘fytte,’ as none ever exceeds the fourteenth spasm.