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ELEGIAC VERSE

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 253 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VERSE has commonly been adopted by See also:German poets for their elegies, but by See also:English poets never. See also:Schiller defines this See also:kind of verse, which consists of a distich of which the first See also:line is a See also:hexameter and the second a See also:pentameter, in the following See also:pretty See also:illustration: " In the hexameter-rises the See also:fountain's silvery See also:column, In the pentameter aye falling in See also:melody back." The word " See also:elegy," in English, is one which is frequently used very incorrectly; it should be remembered that it must be mournful, meditative and See also:short without being ejaculatory. Thus See also:Tennyson's In Memoriam is excluded by its length; it may at best be treated as a collection of elegies. See also:Wordsworth's See also:Lucy, on the other See also:hand, is a See also:dirge; this is too brief a burst of emotion to be styled an elegy. Lycidas and A donais remain the two unapproachable types of what a See also:personal elegy ought to be in English. (E.

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