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Amis and Amiloun

Late 13th century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Cheuelere Assigne

Second half of the fourteenth century

Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse

Eger and Grime

c. 1450

Form: Rhyming couplets

Emaré

Late fourteenth-century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Erle of Tolous

Second half of the fourteenth century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Gamelyn

c. 1350-70

Form: Rhyming couplets

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

Ipomadon

Late fourteenth to mid-fifteenth century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

King Alisaunder

Early fourteenth century

Form: Rhyming couplets

King Arthur and King Cornwall

Late fifteenth century

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

King Horn

Last part of the thirteenth century

Form: Rhyming couplets

Lay le Freine

Early fourteenth century

Form: Rhyming couplets

Sir Eglamour of Artois

c. 1350

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Late fourteenth century

Form: Alliterative stanzas (bob and wheel)

Sir Isumbras

Before 1320

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Launfal

Late fourteenth century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Torrent of Portyngale

c. 1400

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Tristrem

Late thirteenth century

Form: Eleven-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Sir Tryamour

End of the fourteenth century

Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas

Song of Roland

c. 1400

Form: Rhyming couplets

Ywain and Gawain

First half of the fourteenth century

Form: Rhyming couplets