elegiac

UK /ˌɛlɪˈd͡ʒaɪək/ US /ˌɛləˈd͡ʒaɪək/

adj 2noun 1

Collocations

ADJ.

traditional

VERB + ELEGIAC

follows, wrote

ELEGIAC + NOUN

brunswick's, couplet, distich, griefs, latin, songs, verse

PREP.

adj

Of or relating to an elegy.

the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter

Expressing sorrow or mourning.

Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty?

And elegiac griefs, and songs of love,

noun

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

His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs

the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter

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Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty?

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And elegiac griefs, and songs of love,

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His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs

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Tom wrote an elegiac couplet in Latin about Mary.

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This elegy follows the traditional elegiac couplet format of classical poetry.

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