Great Regulars: For this workshop, I'd like you to write

an elegy. The following are a few notes which may be helpful but are certainly not binding: you should write what you like!

Formally, though, an elegy is a poem written in elegiac couplets; a line of hexameter followed by a line of pentameter. That definition, however, pays no regard to the poem's particular subject or tone: more generally, an elegy is a poem of lament (in any form), perhaps on the death of a beloved person, or on any such grievous loss.

from The Guardian: Poetry Workshop: David Constantine's workshop

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