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Meaning of "elegiac"
elegiac (noun) - Elegiac refers to a poem or song that expresses sorrow or lamentation, typically for the deceased
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- Of or relating to an elegy.
- Expressing sorrow or mourning.
- A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.
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The second movement is initially elegiac in tone.
This song is an elegiac goodbye to the days when.
The orchestra then begins an elegiac rhapsody.
An elegiac couplet is a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter.
It is in this way that it becomes fully elegiac.
The elegiac note is natural to him.
It was the standard accompaniment of the passionate elegiac poetry.
In their lyric and elegiac poetry there is much to admire.
I am feeling much more elegiac today.
A single elegiac couplet survives more or less intact from his body of work.
A prehistoric peace that is not without a certain elegiac sweetness.
He was the author of many elegiac poems as well as tragedies and novels.
Someone paid me three silver taels to deliver the elegiac couplet.
They are treated as themes for elegiac meditation rather than for romantic emotion.
Motifs of emptiness and absence haunt the novel and establish its elegiac feel.
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These two latter genres were elegiac poetry and iambic poetry.
These are short poems suitable for dedicatory purposes written in the form of elegiac couplets.
Imagine the elegiac note in this Lied.
It is one of the best extant specimens of Greek elegiac poetry.
The first examples of elegiac poetry in writing come from classical Greece.
Medieval Latin had a developed comedic genre known as elegiac comedy.
The elegiac theme is presented in the first part Lento lugubre by the piano.
I will conclude my elegiac remarks.
You sent the elegiac couplet under the name of Li Dazui.
It was a poem in elegiac verse.
Twelve elegiac duets for cello and piano dedicated to John Asatrian.
Bugarkinje is a traditional name given to elegiac folk songs in the Balkans.
Elegiac Romance for violoncello.
Some scholars have even interpreted Corinna as a metapoetic symbol for the elegiac genre itself.
Greek lyric and Roman elegiac poetry show people in love much as they are today.
Cause I am increasingly drawn to its elegiac tone.
He wrote elegiac narratives, romances and satires.
Progressive exercises in Latin elegiac verse.
Secondly, the elegiac character of the work is unmistakable.
Was an early Arabic elegiac poet.
He subsequently addressed an elegiac poem to the king, asking pardon, and pleading for release.
Perhaps a formal apology, even some elegiac groveling.
David Lyndsay wrote elegiac narratives, romances and satires.
However, he also wrote romantic and elegiac poetry.
Further, it is not an elegiac in the strictest sense.
Its texture is sparse, intimate and even elegiac.
Sextus Propertius was a Latin elegiac poet of the Augustan age.
Morrison calls the piece " cloistered and elegiac.
His voice, full of mournful and elegiac grandeur, turns tragedy into magnificence.
From the very beginning, most of his music was elegiac in tone.
The Commonitorium, which is written in elegiac couplets, is a hortatory and didactic poem.
They are lyrical, generally impassioned pieces, sometimes anguished or wholly elegiac.
For this work, Serov chose the elegiac motif of an autumn evening.
James Wright is a tragic poet, not an elegiac one.
His poetry, notably his elegiac poem Demeter, was highly respected by later ancient poets.
