Usually means: Classical poetic form, mournful themes.
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  1. elegiac couplet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. elegiac couplet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. elegiac couplet: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elegiac couplet: Dictionary.com
  5. Elegiac couplet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Elegiac couplet)

noun:  The elegiac couplet or elegaic distich is a poetic form used by Greek lyric poets for a variety of themes usually of smaller scale than the epic.


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