How to use fytte in a sentence
So the word fytte has gained a technical appropriation to our narrative poetry when it takes the ballad form.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 (2 vols) | Thomas De QuinceySo much is told in the first fytte, which corresponds roughly to our ballad.
Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth | Frank SidgwickOne fytte of Lucilla's history is here ended, and another is to be told.
Miss Marjoribanks | Mrs (Margaret) OliphantA 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.
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