Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a poem written in the alliterative form, which tends to connect the two halves of each poetic line through alliteration, or repetition of consonants. The poem also uses rhyme to structure its stanzas, and each group of long alliterative lines concludes with a word or phrase containing two syllables and a quatrain. Together, they are identified as the "bob and wheel". They provide commentaries on what has just …showed first 75 words of 781 total…

…showed last 75 words of 781 total…n understand the consequences of what happens when our protagonist fails miserably at rejecting an offer. Also in both poems it is a Lord's wife attempting to gain the attention of the best knight in the land that takes on a major part of the story and presents a rather large ordeal for both main characters. This shows how a knight must not only be an excellent courtly lover, but a fine warrior as well.