ELEGIACS
- ELEGIAC, a type of verse [n]
- used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy
- expressing sorrow or lamentation
- noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot
- elegiac or distich verse
- poem in such distichs or verses