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Amis and Amiloun

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

Arthur

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Awntyrs off Arthure

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

Emaré

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

Gest Historiale of the Destruction of Troy

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Guy of Warwick

c.1300
Form: Rhyming couplets, 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

Libeaus Desconus

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

Lyfe of Ipomydon

Fifteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Merlin

1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets

Octavian

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

Seege or Batayle of Troye

1300-25
Form: Rhyming couplets

Siege of Milan

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

Sir Cleges

Late fourteenth century
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