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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

Apollonius of Tyre

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

Arthour and Merline

1250-1300
Form: Rhyming couplets

Athelston

Late fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-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

Guy and Colbrond

Fifteenth century?
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Havelok the Dane

End of the thirteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

History of the Holy Grail

1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets

Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild

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

King Arthur and King Cornwall

Late fifteenth century
Form: Four-line stanzas (quatrains), Six-line stanzas, Eight-line stanzas

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

Roland and Vernagu

before 1330
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Siege of Jerusalem

Late fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Sir Amadace

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

Sir Cleges

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

Sir Degrevant

Between 1385 and 1410
Form: Sixteen-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Ferumbras (Ashmole Sir Ferumbras)

c. 1380
Form: Four-line tail-rhyme stanzas, Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

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

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 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

Titus and Vespasian

1375-1400
Form: Rhyming couplets