Elegiac
21elegiac — n. Prosody, verse line of five dactyls with marked caesura; a. pertaining to or written in such verse line; mournful. ♦ elegiac couplet, dactylic hexameter followed by dactylic pentameter. ♦ elegiacs, n. verses written in elegaic metre or …
22Elegiac couplet — 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 poetry, as in Ovid s Amores . As with heroic… …
23Elegiac comedy — was a genre of medieval Latin literature or drama popular in the twelfth century. About twenty such works survive, all of them produced in west central France, roughly the Loire Valley. Though commonly identified in manuscripts as comoedia ,… …
24Elegiac Stanzas — is a poem by William Wordsworth, originally published in Poems, in Two Volumes (1807). Its full title is Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont …
25Elegiac Cycle — Album par Brad Mehldau Sortie 1999 Genre Jazz Producteur Brad Mehldau Label Warner Bros. Records …
26elegiac stanza — a four line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming alternately. Also called heroic stanza. * * * ▪ poetry in poetry, a quatrain in iambic pentameter (iamb) with alternate lines rhyming. Though the older and more general term for this is heroic… …
27elegiac pentameter — noun : an elegiac hexameter verse * * * Class. Pros. pentameter (def. 2). * * * elegiac pentameter A verse of two penthemimers, the first admitting spondees instead of dactyls, the second dactyls only • • • Main Entry: ↑pentameter …
28elegiac — 1. adjective /ˌɛləˈdʒaɪˌæk,ˌɛləˈdʒaɪək/ a) Of, or relating to an elegy. b) Expressing sorrow or mourning. 2. noun /ˌɛləˈdʒaɪˌæk,ˌɛləˈdʒaɪək/ A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of …
29elegiac — Synonyms and related words: Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, bardic, bucolic, didactic, dirgelike, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, epic, heroic, idyllic, knell like, mock heroic, narrative,… …
30elegíac — e|le|gí|ac Mot Pla Adjectiu variable …
