Elegiac

Adjective

 * Of, or relating to an elegy.
 * 1) Expressing sorrow or mourning.

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

 * 1) A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter

Thesaurus
Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, bucolic, didactic, dirgelike, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, epic, heroic, idyllic, knell-like, mock-heroic, narrative, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, rhapsodic, runic, sapphic, skaldic, threnodic

Pronunciation

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