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Alexander and Dindimus (Alexander Fragment B)

c. 1350
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Alexander Fragment A

c. 1340
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Alliterative Morte Arthure

c. 1400
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Amoryus and Cleopes

1449
Form: Seven-line rhyme royal stanzas

Firumbras (Fillingham Firumbras)

Last quarter of the fourteenth century
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

Greene Knight

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

Guy and Colbrond

Fifteenth century?
Form: Six-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 of Tars

Early fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme 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

Sultan of Babylon

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

Wars of Alexander (Alexander Fragment C)

c. 1450
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Ywain and Gawain

First half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets