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Six example sentences with elegy, each labelled with its topic.
Whitman's elegy for the fallen president runs to more than two hundred lines and never names him once.
Literature
The composer set the elegy for solo viola, letting one line carry what a full orchestra would have blurred.
Music
The mural functions as an elegy, naming every closed mill along a wall that faces the empty rail yard.
Art
Scholars date the Old English elegy to the tenth century, a lament for a lord and a hall already fallen.
History
At the memorial service a senator read an elegy for her late colleague, and the chamber sat silent afterward.
Politics
The film closes with a character reading an elegy at a graveside while the camera holds on the empty chairs.
Movies
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