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Elegy

Type:  

Style, Subject

 
Description: 

A song of death or the passing of time (youth), usually quite mournful.

 
See Also:  

Complaint, Epicedium, Lament, Lyric, Monody, Obsequy, Threnody

 
Status: 

Complete

 
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