Definition of Elegy

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ELEGY noun

	A composition in verse, in which, without employing any of the methods of humor, the writer aims to produce in the reader's mind the dampest kind of dejection. The most famous English example begins somewhat like this: The cur foretells the knell of parting day; The loafing herd winds slowly o'er the lea; The wise man homeward plods; I only stay To fiddle-faddle in a minor key.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

Eloquence

Regular definition:

ELEGY:
?el?d?? n. (pl. -ies) 1 a song of lament, esp. for the dead (sometimes vaguely used of other poems). 2 a poem in elegiac metre. [F ÷l÷gie or L elegia f. Gk elegeia f. elegos mournful poem]

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