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Apollonius of Tyre

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

Bevis of Hampton

c. 1300
Form: Rhyming couplets, Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas

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

Gamelyn

c. 1350-70
Form: Rhyming couplets

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

History of the Holy Grail

1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets

Merlin

1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets

Octavian

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

Otuel and Roland

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

Sir Gowther

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

Sir Percevale of Galles

First half of the fourteenth century
Form: Sixteen-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