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Writer Of Sad Poems Crossword Clue

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noun

• the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead

31%8Sad poems with a reflective tone
noun

• A poem composed in the couplet style of classical elegies: a line of dactylic hexameter followed by a line of dactylic pentameter.

31%8 Offers tribute in sad poems
verb

• To compose an elegy for.

• To compose an elegy.

• To praise, as if in an elegy.

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