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| elegiac | |
| 1. adj. Of, or relating to an elegy. |  |
| the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter | |
| 2. adj. Expressing sorrow or mourning. | |
| 3. n. 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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