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Encyclopedia Britannica



ELEGIAC VERSE

This article appears in Volume V09, Page 253 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ECG-EMS
ELEGIAC VERSE has commonly been adopted by
German
  poets for their elegies, but by
English
  poets never. Schiller defines this
kind
  of verse, which consists of a distich of which the first line is a
hexameter
  and the second a pentameter, in the following
pretty
 
illustration
 :
" In the
hexameter
 -rises the fountain's silvery column,
In the pentameter aye falling in melody back."
The word " elegy," in
English
 , is one which is frequently used very incorrectly; it should be remembered that it must be mournful, meditative and short without being ejaculatory. Thus
Tennyson
 's In Memoriam is excluded by its length; it may at best be treated as a collection of elegies. Wordsworth's
Lucy
 , on the other hand, is a 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 personal elegy ought to be in English. (E. G.)


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