Elegiac vs Dirge - What's the difference?
elegiac | dirge |
Of, or relating to an elegy.
Expressing sorrow or mourning.
* Elizabeth Browning
A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter
* {{quote-book, 1748, John Upton, Critical Observations on Shakespeare, page=385
, passage=His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs }}
As nouns the difference between elegiac and dirge
is that elegiac is a poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter while dirge is a mournful poem or piece of music composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person.As an adjective elegiac
is of, or relating to an elegy.elegiac
English
(wikipedia elegiac)Adjective
(en adjective)- the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter
- Elegiac griefs, and songs of love.
Quotations
* 1808 , , Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field , "Canto the Third: Introduction": *: Hast thou no elegiac verse *: For Brunswick's venerable hearse?Noun
(en noun)citation