[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["used in, suitable for, or resembling an elegy.", "expressing sorrow or lamentation:elegiac strains.", "Classical Prosody.noting a distich or couplet the first line of which is a dactylic hexameter and the second a pentameter, or a verse differing from the hexameter by suppression of the arsis or metrically unaccented part of the third and the sixth foot."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an elegiac or distich verse.", "a poem in such distichs or verses."]}]