| A | B |
| dales | hollows, valleys |
| madrigals | songs with parts for several voices with no musical accompaniment |
| swains | country youths |
| gall | something bitter or distasteful |
| folly | foolishness |
| asunder | apart; in separate directions |
| sonnet | 14 line lyric poem in iambic pentameter |
| haply | by chance |
| sullen | gloomy, dismal |
| tempests | violent storms |
| dun | dull grayish brown |
| belied | proved false; contradicted |
| Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet | 14 lines iambic pentameter lyric poem with octave, sestet |
| English (Shakespearean sonnet) | 14 lines iambic pentameter lyric poem with three quatrains and a final couplet |