Elegiac
WordNet
adjective
(1) Expressing sorrow often for something past
"An elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
(2) Resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy
"An elegiac poem on a friend's death"
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Adjective
Quotations
- 1808, Sir Walter Scott, Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, "Canto the Third: Introduction":
- Hast thou no elegiac verse
- For Brunswick's venerable hearse?
Noun
- A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
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