used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.

expressing sorrow or lamentation

elegiac strains.

Classical Prosody . 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.

an elegiac or distich verse.

a poem in such distichs or verses.

adjective

doleful , funereal , melancholy , mournful , sad , sorrowful , threnodial