I bite off more than I can chew

So the other day I decided that one of my stories requires some alliterative verse poetry. Actually, I decided that it should have rather a significant amount of alliterative poetry. Problem: As much as I can't resist alliterating in prose, I've never written alliterative poetry. In fact, I haven't written any poetry at all in maybe eight years (and looking back at that, never any good poetry). I'm not really sure what I was thinking, but this has sort of fixed in my mind now. I rather think that I need to stop reading Germanic epics and Tolkien lectures.