elegiac

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1. elegiac - Noun

2. elegiac - Adjective

3. elegiac - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.

Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.

Elegiac verse.

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Examples

an elegiac lament for youthful ideals Source: Internet

an elegiac poem on a friend's death Source: Internet

Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (Germany Year 90 Nine Zero, 1991) was a quasi-sequel to Alphaville but done with an elegiac tone and focus on the inevitable decay of age. Source: Internet

A portrait of Thomas Hardy in 1923 Many of Hardy's poems deal with themes of disappointment in love and life, and "the perversity of fate", but the best of them present these themes with "a carefully controlled elegiac feeling". Source: Internet

Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World s.v. Ovid Literary success The first 25 years of Ovid's literary career were spent primarily writing poetry in elegiac meter with erotic themes. Source: Internet

He reprised his performance a decade later on Frank Zappa 's " Memories of El Monte ", an elegiac 1963 song in which he suddenly breaks into "Earth Angel" as one of the various songs remembered. Source: Internet

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