Like Shelley's "Adonais"

• Wistfully mournful
• Like funeral dirges
• Mournful English cricket side, by one account
• Like some of Thomas Gray's poetry
• Like a mournful poem
• Plaintive verse
• Legacies largely corrupt - sad
• Plaintive, as a poem

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death" expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ elegiac verse EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Both catch the film's elegiac mood, bathed in southern sunshine but overhung with impending death. ▪ Chahine Yavroyan's sound-design is a mosaic of distant gunfire, creaking hulks ...