Elegiac
[adj] expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
[adj] resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
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Alcaic, Anacreontic, bardic, bucolic, Castalian, didactic, dirgelike, dithyrambic, dramatic, eclogic, epic, heroic, Homeric, Hudibrastic, idyllic, knell-like, mock-heroic, narrative, pastoral, Pierian, Pindaric, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythologi