elegiac

adj. sad, mournful (also elegiacal)

n. elegy, lament, dirge, mournful poem

Elegiac refers either to those compositions that are like elegies or to a specific poetic meter used in Classical elegies. The Classical elegiac meter has two lines, making it a couplet: a line of dactylic hexameter, followed by a line of dactylic pentameter. Because the hexameter line is in the same meter as epic poetry, and because the elegiac form was always considered lower style than epic, elegists frequently wrote with epic in mind and positioned themselves in relation to epic.
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Adjective
1. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
(pertainym) elegy, lament
2. expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
(similar) sorrowful

(n.)
Elegiac verse.
  

(a.)
Used in elegies; as, elegiac verse; the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter.
  

(a.)
Belonging to elegy, or written in elegiacs; plaintive; expressing sorrow or lamentation; as, an elegiac lay; elegiac strains.
  

elegiac
fig. plaintive
fig. mournful
fig. doleful
elegist
elegiacpoetic versuri elegiace = elegiacs
versuri elegiace = elegiac verses