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Amis and Amiloun

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

Apollonius of Tyre

1376-81
Form: Four-line stanzas (quatrains)

Arthour and Merline

1250-1300
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

Emaré

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

Generides

Late fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets, Seven-line rhyme royal stanzas

Gest Historiale of the Destruction of Troy

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Guy and Colbrond

Fifteenth century?
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Guy of Warwick

c.1300
Form: Rhyming couplets, 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 Horn

Last part of the thirteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Merlin

1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets

Otuel and Roland

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

Roland and Vernagu

before 1330
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Seege or Batayle of Troye

1300-25
Form: Rhyming couplets

Siege of Milan

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

Sir Degrevant

Between 1385 and 1410
Form: Sixteen-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Ferumbras (Ashmole Sir Ferumbras)

c. 1380
Form: Four-line tail-rhyme stanzas, Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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

Sir Landevale

First half of the fourteenth century [?]
Form: Rhyming couplets

Sir Launfal

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

Sir Orfeo

Late thirteenth or early fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Sir Percevale of Galles

First half of the fourteenth century
Form: Sixteen-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Torrent of Portyngale

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

Sir Tryamour

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

Song of Roland

c. 1400
Form: Rhyming couplets

Stanzaic Morte Arthur

c. 1350
Form: Eight-line stanzas

Titus and Vespasian

1375-1400
Form: Rhyming couplets