elegiac

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Adjective

1. Of or relating to an [[elegy]].
2. Expressing [[sorrow]] or [[mourning]].

Noun

1. A poem composed in the [[couplet]] style of classical [[elegy|elegies]]: a line of [[dactylic]] [[hexameter]] followed by a line of dactylic [[pentameter]].

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