Elegiac a. : Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.Elegiac a. : Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.Elegiac n. : Elegiac verse.Example:Why are so many people Elegiac to wheat when it is a nayural product that grows?Taxonomyelegiac, elegy, elegiac meter, elegiac poetry, free encyclopedia, poet, Philitas, Callimachus, Elegiac couplet, epic poetry, Propertius, the Classical, Catullus, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, poetry, Classical poets, writers, poem.Defination from the web:Elegiac refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of dactylic hexameter, followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. ...
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