noun. A poem composed in elegiac couplets.

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noun. A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person.

noun. Something resembling such a poem or song.

noun. A composition that is melancholy or pensive in tone.

noun. In classical poetry, a poem written in elegiac verse.

noun. A mournful or plaintive poem; a poem or song expressive of sorrow and lamentation; a dirge; a funeral song.

noun. Any serious poem pervaded by a tone of melancholy, whether grief is actually expressed or not: as, Gray's “Elegy in a Country Churchyard.”

noun. In music, a sad or funeral composition, vocal or instrumental, whether actually commemorative or not; a dirge.

noun. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.

noun. A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

noun. a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

"The elegy is one of our necessary forms as we try to come to terms with the fact that people around us die, that we, too, will die."

eulogy  

elegiac  

poem  verse form  

allegory  aria  ballad  dirge  eclogue  

English sonnet  Horatian ode  Italian sonnet  Petrarchan sonnet  Pindaric ode