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Alexander-Cassamus

Fifteenth century
Form: Eight-line stanzas

Alliterative Morte Arthure

c. 1400
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Amoryus and Cleopes

1449
Form: Seven-line rhyme royal stanzas

Awntyrs off Arthure

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

Bevis of Hampton

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

Cheuelere Assigne

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

Laud Troy Book

Early 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

Siege of Jerusalem

Late fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

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 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 Percevale of Galles

First half of the fourteenth century
Form: Sixteen-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Tristrem

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

Sir Tryamour

End of the fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Song of Roland

c. 1400
Form: Rhyming couplets

Stanzaic Morte Arthur

c. 1350
Form: Eight-line stanzas

Ywain and Gawain

First half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets