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Alliterative Morte Arthure

c. 1400
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Arthur

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Avowing of King Arthur

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

Bevis of Hampton

c. 1300
Form: Rhyming couplets, Six-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

Firumbras (Fillingham Firumbras)

Last quarter of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Floris and Blancheflour

c. 1250
Form: Rhyming couplets

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

Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild

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

King Horn

Last part of the thirteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Laud Troy Book

Early fifteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Lay le Freine

Early fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Merlin

1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets

Octavian

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

Otuel a Knight

before 1330
Form: Rhyming couplets

Otuel and Roland

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

Partonope of Blois

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

Richard Coeur de Lion

c. 1300
Form: Rhyming couplets

Roland and Vernagu

before 1330
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

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 Degare

Early fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Sir Landevale

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

Sir Launfal

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

Sir Tristrem

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

Sultan of Babylon

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

Turke and Sir Gawain

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

Ywain and Gawain

First half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets