Modifies a noun

• tone: Such a poem would employ a mournful or elegiac tone.

• verse: A Book of Epigrams in heroic or elegiac verse.

• poem: The young Sir Thomas More wrote an elegiac poem in her memory.

• quality: Anthony Page directs the play with a little more speed and energy than its elegiac quality often inspires in directors, with mixed results.

• note: Paul Morley spiked his elegiac liner notes to Billy Mackenzie's beautiful farewell LP Beyond the Sun with that great phrase.

• couplet: What are the limits on Ovid's boldness in using Latin and deploying the elegiac couplet?

Modifying Another Word

• almost: On the brilliant June evenings which seemed so frequent in these early years the whole atmosphere had an almost elegiac quality.