| Dictionary Term | Cross References |
| heroic couplet | stanza form, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Hall, Drayton, Fletcher, Beaumont, Donne, Waller, Denham |
| hexameter | meter, Spenser, Drayton |
| lyric | poetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Daniel, Spenser, Shakespeare, Campion, Drayton, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, Lovelace, Suckling, Carew, Marvell, Herrick, Herbert, Vaughan |
| narrative verse | poetry genre, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Marlowe, Daniel, Drayton, Cowley, Milton, general literary history, British literary history |
| ode | poetry genre, general literary history, Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Daniel, DRayton, Jonson, Marvell, British literary history |
| ottava rima | stanza form, Renaissance lit., Wyatt, Spenser, Drayton, British literary history |
| pastoral | literary genre, general literary history, Renaissance lit., Renaissance poetry, Spenser, Marlowe, Ralegh, Drayton, Jonson, Shirley, Sidney, Donne, Fletcher, Milton, Marvell, British literary history |
| sonnet | sonnet, general literary history, Italian lit., British literary history, Wyatt, Gascoigne, Sidney, Daniel, Lodge, Constable, Drayton, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, Milton, long entry |
| tail-rhyme | rhyme, cauda, caudate sonnet, sonnet, drayton, renaissance poetry |