Old English poetry tends to have commonality at the beginnings of words (e.g. alliteration) rather than rhyming at the ends of words. Or so I remember from The

Old English poetry tends to have commonality at the beginnings of words (e.g. alliteration) rather than rhyming at the ends of words. Or so I remember from The History of English Podcast. It's now 180 episodes in and talking about Shakespeare. Old English was some episodes back, as you might imagine. As with many others posting here IANALinguist.