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Alexander Fragment A

c. 1340

Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

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

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

Havelok the Dane

End of the thirteenth century

Form: Rhyming couplets

Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild

c. 1320

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

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)

Le Bone Florence of Rome

Late fourteenth century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

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 and Roland

c. 1330

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme 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 Gawain and the Green Knight

Late fourteenth century

Form: Alliterative stanzas (bob and wheel)

Sir Gowther

c. 1400

Form: Twelve-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 Tristrem

Late thirteenth century

Form: Eleven-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Stanzaic Morte Arthur

c. 1350

Form: Eight-line stanzas

Wars of Alexander (Alexander Fragment C)

c. 1450

Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

William of Palerne

c. 1350-61

Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Ywain and Gawain

First half of the fourteenth century

Form: Rhyming couplets