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 [ĕĺə-jī́ək, ĭ-lḗjē-ăḱ]
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Elegiac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elegiac refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of da...
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Elegiac couplet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elegiac couplets are a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than those of epic poetry. The ancient Romans frequently used elegiac couplets in love po...
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elegiac: Definition and Pronunciation ... 2. expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains.; 3. Class. Pros.noting a distich 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...
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Elegiac - Definition of Elegiac at Dictionary.com a free online dictionary with pronunciation, synonyms, and translation of Elegiac. Look it up now! ... expressing sorrow or lamentation: elegiac strains.
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Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems. ... ELEGIAC SONNETS, AND; Other Poems, ... ELEGIAC SONNETS.
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elegiac(~adj): nostalgic or melancholic expressions often for something now past ... i guess i knew this day would come..afterall my first post was to annouce that this place was going to be a temporary site for me.
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elegiac (comparative more elegiac, superlative most elegiac) ... 1808, Sir Walter Scott, Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, "Canto the Third: Introduction": Hast thou no elegiac verse For Brunswick's venerable hearse? ... Comparative; more elegiac...
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Propertius' elegiac discourse on Rome resists this presence of an intrusive state by reading its past pessimistically, thus resisting the invited perspective on Roman identity and behavior. My approach is heavily influenced by two recent studies on the interaction between Roman texts and monuments.
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The "elegy" was originally a classical form with few English examples. However, in the mid-18th century, ). That poem inspired numerous imitators, and soon both the revived Pindaric Ode and "elegy" were commonplace. ... He also freed the elegy from the Classical elegiac meter. Afterward, Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that...
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