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elegiac

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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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