Elegy: A greek or latin form in alternating dactylic hexameter and dactylic pentameter lines: and a melancholy poem lamenting its subject's death but ending in consolation. Examples in english include john milton's 'lycidas,' thomas gray's 'elegy,' percy bysshe shelley's 'adonais,' alfred lord tennyson's 'in memoriam,' matthew arnold's 'thyrsis,' gerard manley hopkins' 'wreck of the deutschland,' and walt whitman's 'when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed.' ambrose pierce parodies gray's poem in 'elegy.'

 

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Elegy: A greek or latin form in alternating dactylic hexameter and dactylic pentameter lines: and a melancholy poem lamenting its subject's death but ending in consolation. Examples in english incl . . . View Full Definition

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