Elegiac

Tom wrote an elegiac couplet in Latin about Mary.

the elegiac distich or couplet, consisting of a dactylic hexameter and pentameter

Hast thou no elegiac verse / For Brunswick's venerable hearse, / What! not a line, a tear, a sigh, / When valour bleeds for liberty?

And elegiac griefs, and songs of love,

His saphics are worse, if possible, than his elegiacs