elegiac stanza

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noun

a four-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming alternately.

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Also called heroic stanza.

Words nearby elegiac stanza

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How to use elegiac stanza in a sentence

They are variously loud, meditative, dramatic, witty, sexy, searing, and elegiac.
The Queer Genius of Film Director Derek Jarman|Tim Teeman|November 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“I drive through the streets and see people without hope,” he says in the elegiac narration that ends the film.
Are Narcocorrido Mexican Drug Ballads Really That Bad?|Jimmy So|November 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Finally, just before the tenth stanza, a crestfallen Alvarado whispered that he was done.
Boxers, Be Brave and Quit Before Your Brain Turns to Mush|Gordon Marino|October 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
And writers seem to get it a lot, the relationship between words and page and phrase and paragraph, or stanza.
The Writer and the Potter: Edmund De Waal on his New York Debut|Iain Millar|September 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Six Feet Under ended its six-season run with perhaps the most elegiac, moving final scene a series has ever produced.
‘Breaking Bad’ and TV’s Five Most Shocking Flash-Forward Scenes|Kevin Fallon|August 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
No further hints need be offered except perhaps in regard to the last ten lines of the last stanza.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
Can any of your readers tell me whence comes the following Sotadic Elegiac poem, and construe it for me?
Notes and Queries, Number 177, March 19, 1853|Various
In order to shew the riming more clearly, I have 'set back' the 3rd, 6th, and 7th lines of each stanza.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
Evidently this disclaimer is a pretended one; the preceding stanza and ll.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems|Geoffrey Chaucer
This stanza reproduces in the sixth line the last word of the first, and in the seventh the last word of the fourth.
Frdric Mistral|Charles Alfred Downer

British Dictionary definitions for elegiac stanza

elegiac stanza

noun

prosody a quatrain in iambic pentameters with alternate lines rhyming

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