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Alexander Fragment A

c. 1340

Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Alliterative Morte Arthure

c. 1400

Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Amis and Amiloun

Late 13th century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Amoryus and Cleopes

1449

Form: Seven-line rhyme royal stanzas

Arthour and Merline

1250-1300

Form: Rhyming couplets

Athelston

Late fourteenth century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Avowing of King Arthur

c. 1375-1425

Form: Sixteen-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Awntyrs off Arthure

Late fourteenth century

Form: Alliterative stanzas (bob and wheel)

Capystranus

1456-1515

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Carle of Carlisle

1500-1550

Form: Rhyming couplets

Cheuelere Assigne

Second half of the fourteenth century

Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

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

Gamelyn

c. 1350-70

Form: Rhyming couplets

Gest Historiale of the Destruction of Troy

Second half of the fourteenth century

Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Guy of Warwick

c.1300

Form: Rhyming couplets, 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

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 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)

Laud Troy Book

Early fifteenth century

Form: Rhyming couplets

Le Bone Florence of Rome

Late fourteenth century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Lyfe of Ipomydon

Fifteenth century

Form: Rhyming couplets

Merlin

1420s

Form: Rhyming couplets

Otuel a Knight

before 1330

Form: Rhyming couplets

Partonope of Blois

c. 1420

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

Robert of Cisyle

Late fourteenth century

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

Siege of Jerusalem

Late fourteenth century

Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Siege of Milan

Second half of the fourteenth century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Amadace

Late fourteenth century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Cleges

Late fourteenth century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Degare

Early fourteenth century

Form: Rhyming couplets

Sir Degrevant

Between 1385 and 1410

Form: Sixteen-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Eglamour of Artois

c. 1350

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Ferumbras (Ashmole Sir Ferumbras)

c. 1380

Form: Four-line tail-rhyme stanzas, Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Isumbras

Before 1320

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

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 Tristrem

Late thirteenth century

Form: Eleven-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Song of Roland

c. 1400

Form: Rhyming couplets

Sultan of Babylon

Late fourteenth or early fifteenth century

Form: Four-line stanzas (quatrains), Eight-line stanzas

Titus and Vespasian

1375-1400

Form: Rhyming couplets

Turke and Sir Gawain

c. 1500

Form: Six-line tail-rhyme 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