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Alexander-Cassamus

Fifteenth century
Form: Eight-line stanzas

Alliterative Morte Arthure

c. 1400
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Arthour and Merline

1250-1300
Form: Rhyming couplets

Awntyrs off Arthure

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

Carle of Carlisle

1500-1550
Form: Rhyming couplets

Firumbras (Fillingham Firumbras)

Last quarter of the fourteenth century
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

Ipomadon

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

Jeaste of Sir Gawain

Second half of the fifteenth century
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas

King Alisaunder

Early fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

King Arthur and King Cornwall

Late fifteenth century
Form: Four-line stanzas (quatrains), Six-line stanzas, Eight-line stanzas

King Horn

Last part of the thirteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Lyfe of Ipomydon

Fifteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Marriage of Sir Gawain

Fifteenth century
Form: Four-line stanzas (quatrains)

Octavian

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

Otuel a Knight

before 1330
Form: Rhyming couplets

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

Sir Cleges

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 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 Tristrem

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

Song of Roland

c. 1400
Form: Rhyming couplets

Squire of Low Degree (Undo Your Door)

?1520
Form: Rhyming couplets

Stanzaic Morte Arthur

c. 1350
Form: Eight-line stanzas

Sultan of Babylon

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

Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle

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

Ywain and Gawain

First half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets