Words similar to elegy

Example sentences for: elegy

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"To Autumn" is not just disturbed by a sense that autumn will inevitably pass into winter; it is an elegy for lost summer.
Master P hits all the clichés of gangster rap: the elegy honoring murdered homeboys, the chronicle of his rise through the drug-dealing ranks, the tribute to marijuana, the paean to his gun.
Klapp, Entertainment Weekly ). But Vonnegut's very effort evokes a note of elegy.
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And "Ode to a Nightingale," which meditates on suicide, is an elegy for himself: "Now more than ever seems it rich to die,/ To cease upon the midnight with no pain."