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Alexander Fragment A

c. 1340
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Alexander-Cassamus

Fifteenth century
Form: Eight-line stanzas

Alliterative Morte Arthure

c. 1400
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Amis and Amiloun

Late 13th century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Apollonius of Tyre

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

Arthur

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

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

Duke Roland and Sir Otuel of Spain

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

Emaré

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

Floris and Blancheflour

c. 1250
Form: Rhyming couplets

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

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

Lay le Freine

Early fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Le Bone Florence of Rome

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

Libeaus Desconus

c. 1325-50
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Marriage of Sir Gawain

Fifteenth century
Form: Four-line stanzas (quatrains)

Merlin

1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets

Otuel a Knight

before 1330
Form: Rhyming couplets

Partonope of Blois

c. 1420
Form: Rhyming couplets, Four-line stanzas (quatrains), Eight-line stanzas

Richard Coeur de Lion

c. 1300
Form: Rhyming couplets

Roland and Vernagu

before 1330
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Romans of Partenay

c. 1500
Form: Seven-line rhyme royal stanzas

Seege or Batayle of Troye

1300-25
Form: Rhyming couplets

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 Landevale

First half of the fourteenth century [?]
Form: Rhyming couplets

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

Song of Roland

c. 1400
Form: Rhyming couplets

Squire of Low Degree (Undo Your Door)

?1520
Form: Rhyming couplets

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

Wars of Alexander (Alexander Fragment C)

c. 1450
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

William of Palerne

c. 1350-61
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse