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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

Arthour and Merline

1250-1300
Form: Rhyming couplets

Arthur

Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

Bevis of Hampton

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

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

History of the Holy Grail

1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets

King Alisaunder

Early fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

King Horn

Last part of the thirteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets

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

Roland and Vernagu

before 1330
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Siege of Jerusalem

Late fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Sir Ferumbras (Ashmole Sir Ferumbras)

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

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

Sir Torrent of Portyngale

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

Song of Roland

c. 1400
Form: Rhyming couplets

Squire of Low Degree (Undo Your Door)

?1520
Form: Rhyming couplets

Stanzaic Morte Arthur

c. 1350
Form: Eight-line stanzas

Titus and Vespasian

1375-1400
Form: Rhyming couplets

Ywain and Gawain

First half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets