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Avowing of King Arthur

c. 1375-1425
Form: Sixteen-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Capystranus

1456-1515
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain

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

Eger and Grime

c. 1450
Form: Rhyming couplets

Firumbras (Fillingham Firumbras)

Last quarter of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Floris and Blancheflour

c. 1250
Form: Rhyming couplets

Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild

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

Lay le Freine

Early fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Partonope of Blois

c. 1420
Form: Rhyming couplets, Four-line stanzas (quatrains), Eight-line stanzas

Richard Coeur de Lion

c. 1300
Form: Rhyming couplets

Seege or Batayle of Troye

1300-25
Form: Rhyming couplets

Siege of Jerusalem

Late fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Sir Amadace

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

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 Tristrem

Late thirteenth century
Form: Eleven-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Tryamour

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

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