... copy-and-pasted from the official internet Dictionary... the definition of the word.. 'elegy'...

Dictionary Enter a word Look it up elegy [ˈeləjē] NOUN a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. synonyms: funeral poem/song · burial hymn · lament · dirge · plaint · requiem · keening · keen · coronach · threnody · threnode (in Greek and Roman poetry) a poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius.