1) Expressing sorrow 2) French word used in English 3) Funereal 4) Like a thomas gray work 5) Like funeral dirges 6) Melancholy 7) Mournful 8) Plaintive 9) Plaintive verse 10) Plaintive; melancholy 11) Poem 12) Poetic form 13) Verse form
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1) Lyrical 2) Sad 3) Sorrowful
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Elegiac refers either generally to compositions that are like elegies or specifically to Greek and Latin poetry composed in elegiac couplets, in which a line of dactylic hexameter is followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. Because the hexameter line is in the same meter as epic poetry and because the elegiac form was always considered lower sty...
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a quatrain with the rhyme scheme abab written in iambic pentameter. See also Distich.
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• (a.) Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains. • (a.) Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter. • (n.) Elegiac verse.
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E·le'gi·ac adjective [ Latin
elegiacus , Greek ...: confer French
élégiaque . See
Elegy .]
1. Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an
elegiac lay;
elegiac strains. «
Elegiac griefs, an...
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E·le'gi·ac noun Elegiac verse.
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[
adj] - resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy 2. [adj] - expressing sorrow often for something past
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adjective expressing sorrow often for something past; `an elegiac lament for youthful ideals`
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used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy. · expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains. · noting a distich the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot.
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[The Glass Menagery] expressing sorrow often for something past
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