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Alexander Fragment A

c. 1340
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Amis and Amiloun

Late 13th century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Arthour and Merline

1250-1300
Form: Rhyming couplets

Arthur

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Awntyrs off Arthure

Late fourteenth century
Form: Alliterative stanzas (bob and wheel)

Bevis of Hampton

c. 1300
Form: Rhyming couplets, Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Carle of Carlisle

1500-1550
Form: Rhyming couplets

Eger and Grime

c. 1450
Form: Rhyming couplets

Erle of Tolous

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Firumbras (Fillingham Firumbras)

Last quarter of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Gamelyn

c. 1350-70
Form: Rhyming couplets

Gest Historiale of the Destruction of Troy

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Greene Knight

c.1500
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas, Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Havelok the Dane

End of the thirteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

History of the Holy Grail

1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets

Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild

c. 1320
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Ipomadon

Late fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

King Alisaunder

Early fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

King Horn

Last part of the thirteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

King of Tars

Early fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Knight of Curtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell

Late fourteenth century
Form: Four-line stanzas (quatrains)

Lay le Freine

Early fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Libeaus Desconus

c. 1325-50
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Lyfe of Ipomydon

Fifteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Octavian

c. 1350
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas, Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Otuel and Roland

c. 1330
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Roland and Vernagu

before 1330
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Romans of Partenay

c. 1500
Form: Seven-line rhyme royal stanzas

Seege or Batayle of Troye

1300-25
Form: Rhyming couplets

Siege of Jerusalem

Late fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle

c. 1400
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas, Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas, Sixteen-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Late fourteenth century
Form: Alliterative stanzas (bob and wheel)

Sir Gowther

c. 1400
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Isumbras

Before 1320
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Launfal

Late fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Song of Roland

c. 1400
Form: Rhyming couplets

Squire of Low Degree (Undo Your Door)

?1520
Form: Rhyming couplets

Sultan of Babylon

Late fourteenth or early fifteenth century
Form: Four-line stanzas (quatrains), Eight-line stanzas

Wars of Alexander (Alexander Fragment C)

c. 1450
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

c. 1450
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas

William of Palerne

c. 1350-61
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Ywain and Gawain

First half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets