The interest in kings and royal power in all the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles is their one enduring and binding theme. At some moment around the middle of the tenth century the rhetorical register of the annals with regard to kings shifted, moving from the selective reporting of their deeds to outright praise. Among the surviving OE versions, Scribe 3 of the A Chronicle is the earliest to make this move with the inclusion of a copy of a poem in praise of King Æthelstan and his brother Edmund as annal 937. It is not known if the poem known as The Battle of Brunanburh was expressly written for inclusion in a Chronicle, though it is evident that later poetic annals were. The employment of verse in the annals continued into the eleventh century, an extended moment when the character of traditional OE verse itself was undergoing a radical transformation and new verse forms, such as those based on rhyme, developed in English. The challenge of defining a boundary between verse and prose in the Chronicle is not always an easy one. In his edition, Plummer formatted seventeen passages as verse, while Elliott van Kirk Dobbie included only six poems from the Chronicle in the Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, on the criterion that only these have ‘sufficiently regular meter’. This chapter takes a broad view when discussing verse in the Chronicle, though not all those passages read as verse by Plummer are discussed in detail. While formal aspects of some of these passages are a matter of discussion, they are united in the way they establish the genre of OE political poetry.