Assertion: elegy | /r/HasProperty | kind
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text: A mournful poem; a lament for the dead Classified under: Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents Synonyms: elegy; lament Hypernyms ("elegy" is a kind of...): poem; verse form (a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines) Derivation: elegist (the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead) elegize (compose an elegy)
text: In short, elegy is a sort of lament, a song of mourning or an expression of one’s sorrows and glooms.
text: So you might say that an elegy is a kind of requiem, figuratively speaking.