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Elegiac
Adjective
Definitions
1.
Adjective
Of or relating to an elegy.
"the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter"
2.
Adjective
Expressing sorrow or mourning.
3.
Noun
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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